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0 26/02/1930 A Radiept Crossword   Normal.
1 02/04/1930 A Musical Crossword   Clues concern music.
2 09/04/1930 A ‘Scientific Crossword’   Clues concern science.
3 16/04/1930 An Indian Crossword   Grid is in the shape of India; clues concern India.
4 23/04/1930 A St. George’s Day Crossword   Grid is in the shape of England; clues concern England.
5 30/04/1930 A Cricket Crossword   Clues concern cricket.
6 07/05/1930 A Latin Crossword   Lights are entered in Latin.
7 14/05/1930 This Week’s Crossword   Normal.
8 21/05/1930 A Botanical Crossword   Clues concern botany.
9 28/05/1930 Crossword No. 9   Grid has black squares.
10 04/06/1930 A Greek Crossword   Lights are entered in Greek.
11 11/06/1930 Crossword No. 11   Grid has black squares.
12 18/06/1930 A German Crossword   Clues and lights are in German.
13 25/06/1930 This Week’s Crossword   Grid has black squares, forming a cross.
14 02/07/1930 A French Crossword   Lights are entered in French.
15 09/07/1930 Crossword No. 15   Grid has black squares.
16 16/07/1930 A Latin Crossword   Grid has black squares; lights are entered in Latin.
17 23/07/1930 Crossword No. 17   Grid has black squares; clues mainly concern science.
18 30/07/1930 Crossword Old Style Doggerel Clues are couplets, and most have some subsidiary indications.
19 06/08/1930 Crossword No. 19 Doggerel Narrative with definitions given.
20 13/08/1930 A Musical Crossword   Grid has empty squares; clues concern music.
21 20/08/1930 A Cricket Crossword   Grid is a cricket ground, with two Australian batsmen and eleven English fielders; these names are isolated from the rest of the grid. All clues concern cricket.
22 27/08/1930 A French Crossword   Grid has black squares; lights are entered in French.
23 03/09/1930 A Miscellaneous Crossword   Grid has black squares.
24 10/09/1930 A Literary Treasure-hunt Doggerel Clues are incomplete quotations.
25 17/09/1930 Miscellaneous Crossword   Normal.
26 24/09/1930 Greek Crossword   Lights are entered in Greek.
27 01/10/1930 German Crossword   Clues and lights are in German.
28 08/10/1930 Treasure Hunt Crossword   Clues are contained in a manuscript purporting to be an account of pirates, some letters down the middle of which are indecipherable and must be deduced.
29 15/10/1930 Virgil Bi-Millenary Crossword   Grid has black squares, forming the letters PVM; clues are mainly incomplete Virgilian quotations.
30 22/10/1930 A Motor Show Crossword   Grid appears to have a car grille in it; clues concern cars.
31 29/10/1930 A Crossword for Everyman   Normal.
32 05/11/1930 Guy Fawkes Crossword   Clues are definitions found in lines of doggerel.
33 12/11/1930 Miscellaneous Crossword   Grid has black squares.
34 19/11/1930 Architectural Crossword   Clues concern architecture.
35 26/11/1930 Rhymed Crossword   Clues are rhyming couplets.
36 03/12/1930 Wireless Crossword — Clue Competition   Grid consists of six words defined by their position in the BBC Year-Book; solvers are to submit clues to three of them.
37 10/12/1930 Miscellaneous Crossword   Normal.
38 17/12/1930 Wireless Crossword   Grid appears to have a radio in it; clues concern wireless.
39 24/12/1930 [No crossword]   Writing competition.
40 31/12/1930 [No crossword]   Writing competition.
41 07/01/1931 Towns and Villages in Great Britain   Clues concern British towns.
42 07/01/1931 (Overseas)   Normal, for overseas solvers (no solution ever published).
43 14/01/1931 Greek (from Herodotus) Janus Clues refer to Herodotus; lights are entered in Greek.
44 21/01/1931 Crossword Doggerel Normal.
45 28/01/1931 French Crossword Janus Lights are entered in French.
46 04/02/1931 Dickens   Clues refer to Dickens.
47 04/02/1931 (Overseas) Canada   Clues concern Canada, for overseas solvers (no solution ever published).
48 11/02/1931 St. Valentine's Day   Grid is heart-shaped; clues concern Valentines.
49 18/02/1931 Virgilian Janus Clues concern Virgil.
50 25/02/1931 Jewel-Lore Doggerel Clues concern jewels.
51 04/03/1931 Faraday Doggerel Clues concern Faraday.
52 11/03/1931 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
53 18/03/1931 ‘Hard Lines’ Doggerel Normal.
54 25/03/1931 Spanish   Lights are entered in Spanish.
55 01/04/1931 All Fool’s Day Doggerel Clues concern April Fools.
56 08/04/1931 Latin   Lights are entered in Latin.
57 15/04/1931 Budgetary Doggerel Clues concern the Budget.
58 22/04/1931 St. George’s Day Janus Grid is in the shape of England; clues concern England.
59 29/04/1931 German Literary Maze   Grid is maze-like, with minimal checking; clues are incomplete quotations from German literature.
60 06/05/1931 ‘Random Rhyme’ Doggerel All clues are rhymes.
61 13/05/1931 Greek (Homer)   Several clues refer to Homer; lights are entered in Greek.
62 20/05/1931 ‘Knotty’ Doggerel Normal.
63 27/05/1931 Miscellaneous Janus Normal.
64 03/06/1931 ‘Derby Day’ Doggerel Clues concern racing and are in doggerel.
65 10/06/1931 Latin (Horace) Janus Several clues concern Horace; lights are entered in Latin.
66 17/06/1931 ‘Royal’ Doggerel Clues concern royalty.
67 24/06/1931 Italian Literature   Grid is Times-style; clues concern Italian literature.
68 01/07/1931 ‘North America’ Doggerel Grid is in the shape of North America; clues refer to things American.
69 08/07/1931 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
70 15/07/1931 ‘St. Swithin’s Day’ Doggerel Clues concern rain.
71 22/07/1931 The Arts Janus Grid is in four parts: clues to two of them concern literature, the others visual arts and music.
72 29/07/1931 Mainly Scientific Janus Clues mostly concern scientific matters.
73 05/08/1931 The Great War   Grid is in four parts: clues to them concern Army, Air Force, Civil and Navy.
74 12/08/1931 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
75 19/08/1931 ‘A Quiet Holiday’ Doggerel Narrative concerning a holiday.
76 26/08/1931 ‘Components’   Lights are clued with reference to words contained in them.
77 02/09/1931 The Torn Diagram Doggerel One corner of the diagram appears to have been torn off.
78 09/09/1931 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
79 16/09/1931 ‘Parliamentary’ Doggerel Clues concern governments.
80 23/09/1931 Miscellaneous Janus Normal.
81 30/09/1931 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
82 07/10/1931 ‘The Thruster’ (13 dn.) Doggerel Narrative poem concerning hunting.
83 14/10/1931 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
84 21/10/1931 ‘Trafalgar Day’ Doggerel Clues concern the Battle of Trafalgar.
85 28/10/1931 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
86 04/11/1931 ‘Hallowe’en’ Doggerel Clues concern Hallowe'en.
87 11/11/1931 Greek — Armistice Day Janus Clues concern war; lights are entered in Greek.
88 18/11/1931 Miscellaneous Janus Normal.
89 25/11/1931 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
90 02/12/1931 ‘Jingle’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
91 09/12/1931 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
92 16/12/1931 A Wireless Crossword   Clues concern wireless.
93 23/12/1931 ‘Our Christmas Card’ Doggerel Clues concern Christmas; grid already contains 'A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU'.
94 30/12/1931 ‘Tempus Fugit’ Doggerel Clues concern time.
95 06/01/1932 ‘Plain’ Doggerel Normal.
96 13/01/1932 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
97 20/01/1932 ‘Puzzlers’ Doggerel Clues, in doggerel, concern puzzlers.
98 27/01/1932 ‘Lewis Carroll’ Doggerel Clues concern Lewis Carroll.
99 03/02/1932 Miscellaneous Janus Normal.
100 10/02/1932 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
101 17/02/1932 ‘Phonetic’ Doggerel Clues are couplets: the first line refers to the light, the second to how it sounds.
102 24/02/1932 ‘Leap Year’ Doggerel Clues concern leap years.
103 02/03/1932 ‘Signs and Wonders’ Doggerel Clues concern signs and wonders.
104 09/03/1932 Horace Janus Clues concern Horace; lights are entered in Latin. (Published with number 104(A), a normal puzzle.)
104A 09/03/1932 — — "... an easy English Crossword as an alternative to the monthly Classical Crossword."
105 16/03/1932 ‘Irish Stew’ Doggerel Clues concern Ireland.
106 23/03/1932 Goethe   Clues are taken from Goethe.
107 30/03/1932 April Doggerel Clues concern April.
108 06/04/1932 ‘Infants of the Spring’   Unclued lights form 'THE FIELDS AND GARDENS WERE BESET WITH TULIPS, CROCUS, VIOLET; AND NOW, THOUGH LATE, THE MODEST ROSE DID MORE THAN HALF A BLUSH DISCLOSE'.
109 13/04/1932 Greek Miscellaneous Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
110 20/04/1932 ‘Culinary’ Doggerel Clues concern cooking.
111 27/04/1932 Mathematical   Numerical puzzle.
112 04/05/1932 ‘Da Capo‘   Unclued lights form 'THAT'S THE WISE THRUSH: HE SINGS EACH SONG TWICE OVER, LEST YOU SHOULD THINK HE NEVER COULD RECAPTURE THAT FIRST FINE CARELESS RAPTURE'.
113 11/05/1932 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
114 18/05/1932 ‘Jangle’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
115 25/05/1932 ‘Empire’ Doggerel Clues concern empires; unclued lights are LAWRENCE, PITT, RALEIGH, COOK, HASTINGS, PENN, LIVINGSTONE, CLIVE, RHODES, DRAKE, ANSON.
116 01/06/1932 ‘Night’   Unclued lights form 'NOW THE LIGHT O' THE WEST IS A-TURN'D TO GLOOM, AN' THE MEN BE AT HWOME VROM GROUND; AN' THE BELLS BE A-ZENDEN ALL DOWN THE COOMBE, FROM TOWER, THEIR MWOANSOME SOUND'.
117 08/06/1932 Greek   Lights are entered in Greek.
118 15/06/1932 ‘Potatory’ Doggerel Clues concern drinking.
119 22/06/1932 ‘Applied Mathematics’   Many clues have a mathematical flavour; unclued lights form 'THE LOWEST COMMON MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE MAY SERVE FOR DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS OF PARABOLIC CURVE. BUT FALLING OFF A LOG, HOWEVER EASY PI MAY BE, REQUIRES A POWER DEVELOPED TO THE N-PLUS-ONETH DE
120 29/06/1932 Miscellaneous   Normal.
121 06/07/1932 ‘Diagonal’   Clues are in doggerel; diagonals spell MOLLYCODDLES and APRONSTRINGS.
122 13/07/1932 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
123 20/07/1932 ‘Old Wives’ Tales’ Afrit Clues concern Old Wives' tales; certain lights form 'BETTER IT IS TO RISE BETIME, AND TO MAKE HAY WHILE SUN DOTH SHINE, THAN TO BELIEVE IN TALES AND LIES, WHICH IDLE MONKS AND FRIARS DEVISE'.
124 27/07/1932 ‘Cross-number’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
125 03/08/1932 ‘An Echo’ Doggerel Clues are couplets.
126 10/08/1932 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
127 17/08/1932 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
128 24/08/1932 Italian Literature   Grid is Times-style; clues concern Italian literature.
129 31/08/1932 ‘Very Mathematical’ Afrit Clues have a mathematical flavour; certain lights are anagrams of words given as cryptograms.
130 07/09/1932 ‘Jumble’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
131 14/09/1932 ‘Whirligig’ Afrit Clues are in doggerel; ENGLISH HISTORY and ECHOING GALLERY appear in a diamond shape.
132 21/09/1932 ‘Scott’ Doggerel Clues concern or are taken from works of Scott.
133 28/09/1932 Latin — Tacitus   Clues concern Tacitus; lights are entered in Latin.
134 05/10/1932 ‘Pedagoguery’ Afrit Clues concern schools; certain lights form 'THERE WE MET WITH FAMOUS MEN SET IN OFFICE O'ER US; AND THEY BEAT ON US WITH RODS FOR THE LOVE THEY BORE US'.
135 12/10/1932 ‘Missing in the Wilds’ Doggerel Narrative extract from the diary of an African hunter.
136 19/10/1932 ‘Wren’ Doggerel Clues concern Wren.
137 26/10/1932 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
138 02/11/1932 ‘Cross-number II’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
139 09/11/1932 ‘London and Lord Mayor’s Day’ Doggerel Clues concern London.
140 16/11/1932 ‘B.B.C. Birthday’ Doggerel Clues concern birthdays and the B.B.C. (ten years old).
141 23/11/1932 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
142 30/11/1932 ‘Gradatim’ Afrit Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next.
143 07/12/1932 ‘Straightforward’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
144 14/12/1932 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
145 21/12/1932 ‘Greeting’ Doggerel The completed grid spells THE LISTENER WISHES YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
146 28/12/1932 ‘Cross-number III’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
147 04/01/1933 ‘Diagonal II’ Afrit Diagonals spell JACK-A-LANTERN and WILL-O'-THE-WISP.
148 11/01/1933 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
149 18/01/1933 ‘Poets’ Doggerel Lights are names of poets, clued by extracts from their works.
150 25/01/1933 ‘Mythematical’ Afrit Some lights are taken from the first verse of 'Jabberwocky'; others are clued by equations involving the numerical values of their letters.
151 01/02/1933 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
152 08/02/1933 ‘Epigrams’ Doggerel Clues concern epigrams.
153 15/02/1933 ‘A Valentine’ Afrit Certain lights form the acrostic JOCUND BE YOUR HOURS OF PLAY, ONLY ROSES STREW YOUR WAY; YOUTH IS FLEET AND WILL NOT STAY: CARPE DIEM WHILE YOU MAY; ERE THE SKY BE DULL AND GRAY, MAKE HAY!
154 22/02/1933 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
155 01/03/1933 ‘Cross-number IV’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
156 08/03/1933 ‘March’ Afrit Clues concern the month of March.
157 15/03/1933 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
158 22/03/1933 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
159 29/03/1933 ‘Biblical’ Afrit Clues refer to the Bible.
160 05/04/1933 ‘Cross-number V’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
161 12/04/1933 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
162 19/04/1933 ‘Sixes and Sevens’ Afrit Lights are all 6- or 7-letter; clues are mainly incomplete quotations.
163 26/04/1933 ‘Slavery’ Doggerel Clues concern slavery.
164 03/05/1933 French   Clues and lights are in French.
165 10/05/1933 ‘Hit or Miss’ Doggerel Grid is diamond-shaped.
166 17/05/1933 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
167 24/05/1933 Ariosto   Grid is Times-style; clues concern the literature of Ariosto.
168 31/05/1933 ‘Derby Day’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel, and concern the Derby.
169 07/06/1933 ‘Cross-number VI’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
170 14/06/1933 Miscellaneous   Central 7 x 7 square is isolated; bars within it form a face in profile.
171 21/06/1933 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
172 28/06/1933 ‘Shady Spaces’ Doggerel Clues concern summer; shaded squares spell 'SUMMER IS YCUMEN IN'.
173 05/07/1933 General Doggerel Grid is roughly diamond-shaped.
174 12/07/1933 ‘Biblical II’ Afrit Clues refer to the Bible.
175 19/07/1933 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
176 26/07/1933 ‘Diagonal III’ Afrit Diagonals spell QUEEN OF SHEBA and KING OF ISRAEL.
177 02/08/1933 ‘Double Thread’ Doggerel Clues are couplets.
178 09/08/1933 ‘Cross-number VII’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
179 16/08/1933 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
180 23/08/1933 ‘Pot-pourri’ Afrit Clues are incomplete quotations.
181 30/08/1933 French Crossword   Clues and lights are in French.
182 06/09/1933 ‘Elizabethan’ Doggerel Clues concern Queen Elizabeth.
183 13/09/1933 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
184 20/09/1933 ‘September’ Afrit Clues concern the month of September.
185 27/09/1933 ‘Cross-number VIII’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
186 04/10/1933 ‘The Maze’ Doggerel 'NOW BURGEONS EVERY MAZE OF QUICK ABOUT THE FLOWERING SQUARES' reads around the border of the diagram until it turns in towards the centre.
187 11/10/1933 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
188 18/10/1933 ‘Gradatim II’ Afrit Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next.
189 25/10/1933 ‘Cross-number IX’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
190 01/11/1933 ‘Honours’ Doggerel Clues mainly concern kings and queens; first four across lights are ACE, KING, QUEEN, KNAVE.
191 08/11/1933 Latin ‘Newspaper Pattern’ Janus Grid is Times-style; lights are entered in Latin.
192 15/11/1933 ‘November’ Janus Narrative poem concerning the month of November, with rhyming words omitted and also to be provided.
193 22/11/1933 ‘Dreams’ Doggerel Clues are incomplete quotations concerning dreams.
194 29/11/1933 ‘Twenty-six’ Afrit Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. double DUTCH = IQNFP, a square MEAL = FSBKNRCN.
195 06/12/1933 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
196 13/12/1933 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
197 20/12/1933 ‘Christmas Tree’ Doggerel Grid is in the shape of a Christmas Tree, with down lights reading from branch to branch until a bar is reached.
198 27/12/1933 ‘Biblical III’ Afrit Clues concern the Bible.
199 03/01/1934 ‘Crossnumber X’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
200 10/01/1934 Latin — Virgil Janus Clues are taken from works of Virgil; lights are entered in Latin.
201 17/01/1934 ‘Old Style’ Doggerel Clues are couplets.
202 24/01/1934 ‘Aquarius’ Afrit Clues concern Aquarius.
203 31/01/1934 ‘Twenty-six Again’ Afrit Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. square LEG = ERWWSM, BRICKS without STRAW = AXNKIV.
204 07/02/1934 ‘Superstitions’ Doggerel Clues concern superstitions.
205 14/02/1934 Greek Janus Grid is Times-style; lights are entered in Greek.
206 21/02/1934 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
207 28/02/1934 ‘Pisces’ Afrit Clues concern Pisces.
208 07/03/1934 ‘Birds’ Doggerel Clues concern birds.
209 14/03/1934 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
210 21/03/1934 ‘William Morris’ Doggerel Clues concern William Morris.
211 28/03/1934 ‘Aries’ Afrit Clues concern Aries.
212 04/04/1934 ‘Cross-number XI’ Afrit Numerical puzzle.
213 11/04/1934 ‘Beasts’ Doggerel Clues concern beasts.
214 18/04/1934 ‘The Vulgar Tongue’ (Diagonal) Afrit Narrative poem concerning pronunciation; diagonals spell BILLINGSGATE and KING'S ENGLISH.
215 25/04/1934 ‘Taurus’ Afrit Clues concern Taurus.
216 02/05/1934 ‘Flowers’ Doggerel Clues concern flowers; four lights form 'PANSIES, LILIES, KINGCUPS, DAISIES, LET THEM LIVE UPON THEIR PRAISES'.
217 09/05/1934 Greek: New Testament   Clues concern the New Testament; lights are entered in Greek.
218 16/05/1934 ‘A Tale of Terror’ Doggerel Narrative concerning a traveller's tale.
219 23/05/1934 ‘Gemini’ Afrit Clues concern Gemini.
220 30/05/1934 ‘Two by Two’   Clues are to pairs of lights.
221 06/06/1934 ‘Biblical IV’ Afrit Clues concern the Bible.
222 13/06/1934 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
223 20/06/1934 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
224 27/06/1934 ‘Cancer’ Afrit Clues concern Cancer.
225 04/07/1934 ‘American Poets’ Doggerel Clues are mainly lines from poems by American writers, with lights the corresponding poets.
226 11/07/1934 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
227 18/07/1934 ‘Leo’ Afrit Clues concern Leo.
228 25/07/1934 ‘Coleridge’ Doggerel Clues concern Coleridge.
229 01/08/1934 ‘Gradatim III’ Afrit Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next.
230 08/08/1934 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
231 15/08/1934 ‘Old Style’ Doggerel Clues are couplets.
232 22/08/1934 ‘Fruits’ Doggerel Clues concern fruits.
233 29/08/1934 ‘Virgo’ Afrit Clues concern Virgo.
234 05/09/1934 ‘Once Removed’   Lights are synonyms of synonyms of the clues.
235 12/09/1934 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
236 19/09/1934 ‘What’s-a-Name’ Doggerel Lights are mainly personages.
237 26/09/1934 ‘Libra’ Afrit Clues concern Libra.
238 03/10/1934 Music   Clues concern music; some lights refer to a musical extract printed above the grid.
239 10/10/1934 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
240 17/10/1934 ‘Twenty-six III’ Afrit Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. IN times PAST = EWFTNT, demi-semi-QUAVER = DKSYAK.
241 24/10/1934 Child’s Play John H. Watson, M.D. Clues concern Sherlock Holmes.
242 31/10/1934 ‘Scorpio’ Afrit Clues concern Scorpio.
243 07/11/1934 ‘Who Said?’ Doggerel Clues are quotations, with the lights their authors.
244 14/11/1934 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
245 21/11/1934 ‘Sagittarius’ Afrit Clues concern Sagittarius.
246 28/11/1934 ‘Wedding Bells’ Doggerel Clues, mainly incomplete quotations, concern weddings.
247 05/12/1934 ‘Word-Perfect’ Afrit Clues are in doggerel; BLESSED DAMOZEL and BUDDING GENERAL appear in a diamond shape.
248 12/12/1934 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
249 19/12/1934 ‘Capricornus’ Afrit Clues concern Capricornus.
250 26/12/1934 ‘Lamb’ Doggerel Clues concern Charles Lamb.
251 02/01/1935 ‘Poets’ Calendar’ Doggerel Clues are incomplete quotations presented in groups corresponding to the twelve months of the year.
252 09/01/1935 ‘Word-Ladder’ Afrit Lights are unclued rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder.
253 16/01/1935 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
254 23/01/1935 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
255 30/01/1935 ‘Pluviose’ Afrit Clues concern rain; some lights form 'FIRST IT RAINED, AND THEN IT SNEW; THEN IT FRIZ, AND THEN IT THEW; AND THEN IT FRIZ AGAIN'.
256 06/02/1935 ‘Traffic Problems’ Doggerel Clues concern traffic.
257 13/02/1935 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
258 20/02/1935 Miscellaneous Doggerel Normal.
259 27/02/1935 ‘Ventose’ Afrit Clues concern wind; some lights form 'WELCOME, BLACK NORTHEASTER, O'ER THE GERMAN FOAM!'
260 06/03/1935 ‘Biblical V’ Afrit Clues concern the Bible.
261 13/03/1935 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
262 20/03/1935 ‘Proverbs’ Doggerel Clues concern proverbs; some lights form 'JEWELS FIVE WORDS LONG THAT ON THE STRETCHED FOREFINGER OF ALL TIME SPARKLE FOR EVER'.
263 27/03/1935 ‘Germinal’ Afrit Clues concern sowing; some lights form 'WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEEDTIME ... SHALL NOT CEASE'.
264 03/04/1935 Child’s Play John H. Watson, M.D. Clues concern Sherlock Holmes stories.
265 10/04/1935 ‘A Cage’ Doggerel Bars in columns are to be inserted; many clues are incomplete quotations from writers who were imprisoned.
266 17/04/1935 ‘Lent and Easter’ Afrit Clues concern Lent and Easter.
267 24/04/1935 ‘Floréal’ Afrit Clues concern flowers; some lights form 'THE LILY QUEEN, THE ROYAL ROSE, THE GILLIFLOWER, PRINCE OF THE WOOD, THE COURTIER TULIP, GAY IN CLOTHES, THE REGAL BUD'.
268 01/05/1935 ‘Jubilee’ Doggerel Clues concern the Jubilee; some lights form 'YOU CANNOT CONTRIBUTE TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE'.
269 08/05/1935 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
270 15/05/1935 ‘Mrs. Hemans’ Doggerel Narrative concerning Mrs. Hemans, with some incomplete quotation clues.
271 22/05/1935 ‘Poet and Pestle’ Doggerel Clues concern poets who had studied medicine.
272 29/05/1935 ‘Prairial’ Afrit Clues concern harvesting; some lights form 'TWO MEN WENT TO MAW, WENT TO MOW A MEADOW; TWO MEN ONE MAN AND HIS DOG WENT TO MOW A MEADOW'.
273 05/06/1935 ‘Whitsuntide’ Afrit Clues concern Whitsuntide.
274 12/06/1935 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
275 19/06/1935 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
276 26/06/1935 ‘Messidor’ Afrit Lights are contained in three excerpts concerning harvest.
277 03/07/1935 ‘Old Age’ Doggerel Clues concern old age; some lights form 'LET ME GROW LOVELY GROWING OLD'.
278 10/07/1935 ‘Biblical VI’ Afrit Clues concern the Bible.
279 17/07/1935 Latin Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
280 24/07/1935 ‘Old Gems’ Doggerel Normal.
281 31/07/1935 ‘Fervidor’ Afrit Clues concern summer heat; 'SUN WHOSE RAYS ARE ALL ABLAZE WITH EVERLIVING GLORY WILL NOT DENY HIS MAJESTY: HE SCORNS TO TELL A STORY' may be read in the grid.
282 07/08/1935 ‘Friendship’ Doggerel Clues concern friendship.
283 14/08/1935 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
284 21/08/1935 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
285 28/08/1935 ‘Fructidor’ Afrit Clues concern fruit; some lights form 'FOR THE GAY FRUITS OF NATURE WHAT WISH CAN YOU FEEL WHEN COMPARED WITH THE FRUITS OF THE LOTTERY WHEEL?'
286 04/09/1935 ‘Once Removed II’   Some clues are synonyms of synonyms of the lights.
287 11/09/1935 ‘Twenty-six IV’ Afrit Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. THE Times NEWSPAPER = KCZUMXYAQRPL, FOURTH of FIRTH = AOKEA.
288 18/09/1935 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
289 25/09/1935 ‘Vendémiaire’ Afrit Clues concern wine; some lights form 'ON TURNPIKES OF WONDER WINE LEADS the MIND FORTH, STRAIGHT, SIDEWISE AND UPWARD, WEST, SOUTHWARD AND NORTH'.
290 02/10/1935 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
291 09/10/1935 ‘Music II’   Clues concern music; a quotation from the SCHICKSALSLIED is given.
292 16/10/1935 ‘39AC’ Doggerel Clues concern riches; some lights form 'WHAT NEED HAVE WE OF INDIAN WEALTH, OR COMMERCE WITH OUR NEIGHBOURS? OUR CONSTITUTION IS IN HEALTH, AND RICHES CROWN OUR LABOURS'.
293 23/10/1935 ‘Cryptogram’ Afrit Lights are entered encoded; other lights then form LISTENER READERS ARE WARNED AGAINST THREE MEN, KNOWN RESPECTIVELY AS JANUS, DOGGEREL AND AFRIT, WHO PERSISTENTLY THWART THE EDITOR'S GENEROUS INTENTIONS TOWARDS CROSSWORD SOLVERS.
294 30/10/1935 ‘Brumaire’ Afrit Clues concern fog; some lights form 'WHEN THE TREBLE THICKNESS SPREAD SWALLOWS UP OUR NEXT AHEAD ... WHEN, HER PASSAGE UNDISCERNED, WE MUST TURN WHERE SHE HAS TURNED, HEAR THE CHANNEL FLEET AT SEA, LIBERA NOS, DOMINE!'
295 06/11/1935 ‘Square the Circle’ Doggerel The centre of the gris has been 'whited out'.
296 13/11/1935 Greek Janus Lights are entered in Greek.
297 20/11/1935 ‘Mark Twain’ Doggerel Grid is Times-style; clues concern Mark Twain.
298 27/11/1935 ‘Frimaire’ Afrit Clues concern frost; some lights form 'KEEN AGAINST THE WALLS OF SAPPHIRE, THE GLEAMING TREEBOLLS, ICE-EMBOSSED, HOLD UP THEIR CHANDELIERS OF FROST'.
299 04/12/1935 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
300 11/12/1935 Latin. Virgil Janus Lights are entered in Latin.
301 18/12/1935 ‘From the Xmas Post-Bag’ Doggerel Narrative involving Christmas thank-you letters.
302 25/12/1935 ‘Nivose’ Afrit Clues concern snow; some lights form 'DECEMBER, HITHER WITH MUFFLED TREAD, AND GAZE ON THE YEAR FOR THE YEAR IS DEAD, AND OVER HIM CAST A WAN WHITE PALL. TAKE DOWN THE MATTOCK AND PLY THE SPADE, AND DEEP IN THE CLAY LET HIS CLAY BE LAID, AND SNOWFLAKES FA
303 01/01/1936 ‘Another Year’ Doggerel Clues concern the New Year.
304 08/01/1936 ‘Surnames’ Afrit Narrative in the form of doggerel, with all words used being surnames giving a phonetic rendition.
305 15/01/1936 ‘Why, Sirs, the Name’s a Word’ Doggerel Most lights are eponyms.
306 22/01/1936 ‘Secret Codes’ Louis C.S. Mansfield Simple substitution cipher, which decoded reads INTRODUCING WORDS LIKE PYX INTO CRYPTS OCCASIONS ONLY SLIGHT DIFFICULTY. WOULD-BE CRYPTOGRAPHERS GENERALLY GUARD AGAINST SUCH OBVIOUS PITFALLS.
307 29/01/1936 ‘Words’ Worth’ Afrit Clues are incomplete quotations from Wordsworth; each light is the product of the letter values in the missing word.
308 05/02/1936 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
309 12/02/1936 ‘Valentine’s Day’ Doggerel Narrative concerning Valentine's day.
310 19/02/1936 Latin   Lights are entered in Latin.
311 26/02/1936 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
312 04/03/1936 ‘Second-hand’ Afrit Most clues are taken from the Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs.
313 11/03/1936 ‘Moore’ Doggerel Clues are incomplete quotations from Thomas Moore.
314 18/03/1936 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
315 25/03/1936 ‘Pickwick’ Doggerel Clues concern Pickwick Papers.
316 01/04/1936 ‘1st April’ Doggerel Clues concern fools.
317 08/04/1936 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
318 15/04/1936 ‘Cryptogram II’ Afrit A simple substitution cipher is used for certain words in clues; these lights are encoded on entry. The unclued lights form a report on an investigation.
319 22/04/1936 ‘Old Gems’ Doggerel Clues are incomplete quotations.
320 29/04/1936 ‘Bees’ Afrit Clues concern bees.
321 06/05/1936 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
322 13/05/1936 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
323 20/05/1936 ‘Nasal Manoeuvres’ Afrit Clues concern noses.
324 27/05/1936 ‘Horsy’ Doggerel Clues concern horses.
325 03/06/1936 ‘Biblical VII’ Afrit Clues concern the Bible.
326 10/06/1936 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
327 17/06/1936 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
328 24/06/1936 ‘Optical Allusions’ Afrit Clues concern eyes.
329 01/07/1936 ‘Cacographical’ Doggerel Clues are incomplete quotations; they and all lights involve misspellings.
330 08/07/1936 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
331 15/07/1936 ‘All Square’ Afrit Numerical puzzle involving solutions of a¦ - b¦ = b¦ - c¦ = x.
332 22/07/1936 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
333 29/07/1936 ‘Hair-splits’ Afrit Clues concern hair.
334 05/08/1936 ‘Pets’ Doggerel Clues concern pets.
335 12/08/1936 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
336 19/08/1936 ‘Twenty-six V’ Afrit Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. half-WITTED = KQWJBO, TIME and AGAIN = BAJVS.
337 26/08/1936 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
338 02/09/1936 ‘Gradatim IV’ Afrit Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next.
339 09/09/1936 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
340 16/09/1936 ‘Utopia’ Doggerel Clues concern various utopias.
341 23/09/1936 ‘Diagonal V’ Afrit Diagonals spell SOVIET RUSSIA and FASCIST ITALY.
342 30/09/1936 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
343 07/10/1936 ‘Ecclestiastical’ Afrit Clues concern ecclesiastical matters.
344 14/10/1936 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
345 21/10/1936 ‘Pseudonyms’ Doggerel Clues concern pseudonyms.
346 28/10/1936 ‘Bishop’s Move’ Afrit Lights are entered diagonally, ending at the edge of the grid.Some lights form 'FROM EAST AND SOUTH THE HOLY CLAN OF BISHOPS GATHERED TO A MAN; TO SYNOD CALLED PAN-ANGLICAN IN FLOCKING CROWDS THEY CAME'.
347 04/11/1936 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
348 11/11/1936 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
349 18/11/1936 ‘W.S. Gilbert’ Doggerel Clues concern writings of W.S. Gilbert.
350 25/11/1936 ‘The Knight and the Castle’ Afrit Certain knight's paths spell 'PRINCE, PRIDE MUST HAVE A FALL. WHAT IS THE WORTH OF ALL YOUR STATE'S SUPREME URBANITIES? BAD AT THE BEST'S THE GAM. WELL MIGHT THE SAGE EXCLAIM:- 'O VANITY OF VANITIES!''
351 02/12/1936 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
352 09/12/1936 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
353 16/12/1936 ‘The Daughter Tongue’ Afrit Narrative in the form of a poem concerning Americanisms.
354 23/12/1936 ‘Christmas Bells’ Doggerel Clues concern Christmas.
355 30/12/1936 ‘Cross-number XIII’ Afrit Numerical puzzle concerning triangles with integral sides and area 13,860.
356 06/01/1937 ‘A Puzzle for 12th Day’ Doggerel Clues all involve the number twelve.
357 13/01/1937 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
358 20/01/1937 ‘Plum-stones’ Afrit Clues concern one or more of 'tinker, tailor, ...'.
359 27/01/1937 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
360 03/02/1937 ‘Cross-number XIV’ Afrit Numerical puzzle concerning triangles with integral sides and areas.
361 10/02/1937 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
362 17/02/1937 ‘Comic Poets’ Doggerel Clues concern comic poets.
363 24/02/1937 ‘Tinker’ Afrit Clues concern tinkers.
364 03/03/1937 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
365 10/03/1937 Greek Crossword Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
366 17/03/1937 ‘To Any Reader’ Afrit Clues are literary, and are in doggerel.
367 24/03/1937 ‘Tailor’ Afrit Clues concern tailors.
368 31/03/1937 ‘Swinburne’ Doggerel Clues concern Swinburne.
369 07/04/1937 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
370 14/04/1937 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
371 21/04/1937 ‘Soldier’ Afrit Clues concern soldiers.
372 28/04/1937 ‘An Old Story’ Doggerel Narrative concerning the mutiny on the Bounty.
373 05/05/1937 ‘Cryptogram III’ Afrit Down lights are entered using a substitution cipher; unclued lights form MARSHAL FACTS FROM GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRIVATE INFORMATION FOR MAJOR SUCCESS.
374 12/05/1937 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
375 19/05/1937 ‘Sailor’ Afrit Clues concern sailors.
376 26/05/1937 ‘Clowns’ Doggerel Clues concern clowns.
377 02/06/1937 ‘Printer’s Devilry’ Afrit Clues are PD (in some cases the omitted letters form not one word but two or three).
378 09/06/1937 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
379 16/06/1937 ‘Old Gems’ Doggerel Clues concern literary references.
380 23/06/1937 Analysis of Unknown Solution Proton Clues concern chemistry.
381 30/06/1937 ‘Rich Man’ Afrit Clues concern rich men.
382 07/07/1937 ‘Re-Hash’ Doggerel Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.
383 14/07/1937 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
384 21/07/1937 ‘Dress’ Doggerel Clues concern dress.
385 28/07/1937 ‘New Century’ Afrit Clues are in doggerel.
386 04/08/1937 ‘Ben Jonson’ Doggerel Clues concern Ben Jonson.
387 11/08/1937 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
388 18/08/1937 ‘Holiday Task’ Afrit Narrative in the form of a letter.
389 25/08/1937 ‘Similes’ Doggerel Clues involve similes.
390 01/09/1937 ‘Biblical VIII’ Afrit Clues concern the Bible.
391 08/09/1937 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
392 15/09/1937 ‘Musical Composition’ Proton Clues concern music.
393 22/09/1937 ‘What For?’ Afrit Clues are of the form '? for ___', e.g. 'M for ___' leads to SIZE, 'Z for ___' leads to EFFECT.
394 29/09/1937 ‘Children’s Hour’ Doggerel Clues concern fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
395 06/10/1937 Analysis of Unknown Solution. No. 2 Proton Clues concern chemistry.
396 13/10/1937 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
397 20/10/1937 ‘Playfair’ Afrit 12 lights are entered Playfair-coded, with the code-square entered in the centre of the grid. KEY: Whiskerando
398 27/10/1937 (Competition No. 398)   Literary competition.
399 03/11/1937 ‘Cross-number XV’ Afrit Numerical puzzle, printed with an error which made it insoluble; corrected as no. 405.
400 10/11/1937 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
401 17/11/1937 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
402 24/11/1937 (Competition No. 402)   Literary competition.
403 01/12/1937 ‘Gradatim V’ Afrit Lights are 'steps in a train of thought', each vaguely suggesting the next.
404 08/12/1937 ‘Devilled Latin’ Pollux Clues are PD, and they and lights are in Latin.
405 15/12/1937 ‘Cross-number XV’ Afrit Numerical puzzle; corrected form of no. 399.
406 22/12/1937 (Dickens and Christmas)   Literary competition.
407 29/12/1937 ‘Time, Weather and News’ Doggerel Clues concern time, weather or news.
408 05/01/1938 ‘Twenty-six VI’ Afrit Words are regarded as numbers in base 26, with A = 1, B = 2, ..., Y = 25, Z = 0; clues mostly lead to phrases to be interpreted numerically, e.g. SAVED from WRECK = DPHXG, WOODEN WALLs = TXCHJFNAZL.
409 12/01/1938 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
410 19/01/1938 ‘Anagram Tangram’ Proton Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
411 26/01/1938 Competition No. 411 Salijok Literary competition.
412 02/02/1938 ‘Brevities’ Doggerel Some lights contain SIGNS or SYMBOLS, e.g. SUR+, REPRIM&.
413 09/02/1938 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
414 16/02/1938 ‘Diagonal VI’ Afrit Clues are in doggerel; diagonals spell HAPPY-GO-LUCKY and DEVIL-MAY-CARE.
415 23/02/1938 Competition No. 415 Samoth Literary competition.
416 02/03/1938 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
417 09/03/1938 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
418 16/03/1938 Current Topics Proton Clues concern radio.
419 23/03/1938 ‘Afrit’ Afrit Grid forms a portrait of Afrit.
420 30/03/1938 Competition No. 420   Literary competition.
421 06/04/1938 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
422 13/04/1938 Latin. Horace Pollux Lights are entered in Latin; clues concern works of Horace.
423 20/04/1938 ‘Diagonal VII’ Afrit Diagonals spell HATCHET-FACED and LANTERN-JAWED.
424 27/04/1938 Competition No. 424   Literary competition.
425 04/05/1938 Music II Proton Clues concern music.
426 11/05/1938 Greek. Sophocles Pollux Lights are entered in Greek; clues concern works of Sophocles.
427 18/05/1938 ‘On 8As’ Doggerel Narrative concerning puns.
428 25/05/1938 Competition No. 428   Literary competition.
429 02/06/1938 ‘Conventional’ Afrit Grid has black squares.
430 09/06/1938 ‘Latin’ Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
431 16/06/1938 Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 3 Proton Clues concern chemistry.
432 23/06/1938 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
433 30/06/1938 Competition No. 433   Literary competition.
434 07/07/1938 ‘Amends’ Afrit Normal.
435 14/07/1938 ‘Greek’ Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
436 21/07/1938 ‘Chapter Headings’ Proton Most clues are incomplete chapter headings.
437 28/07/1938 ‘Re-Hash II’ Doggerel Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.
438 04/08/1938 Names — I Scorpio Lights are proper names, mostly clued by incomplete quotations.
439 11/08/1938 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
440 18/08/1938 Anagram Tangram II Proton Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
441 25/08/1938 ‘General’ Doggerel Clues are in doggerel.
442 01/09/1938 Names II Scorpio Lights are proper names, mostly clued by incomplete quotations.
443 08/09/1938 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
444 15/09/1938 Music III Proton Clues concern music.
445 22/09/1938 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
446 29/09/1938 ‘Bridge’ Scorpio Clues concern bridge.
447 06/10/1938 Art I Proton Clues concern art.
448 13/10/1938 Latin Crossword Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
449 20/10/1938 ‘Head or Tail’ Doggerel Each answer is made up of two words, one of which is the light.
450 27/10/1938 ‘Geography’ Nomad Clues concern geography.
451 03/11/1938 ‘Football’ Scorpio Clues concern football.
452 10/11/1938 Greek — Euripides Castor Lights are entered in Greek; clues concern works of Euripides.
453 17/11/1938 ‘Suggestions’ Doggerel Many clues include definitions of homophones of the lights.
454 24/11/1938 ‘Phraseological’ Afrit Several lights are phrases.
455 01/12/1938 ‘What For?’ Proton Clues are of the form '? for ___', e.g. 'I for ___' leads to NOVELLO, 'X for ___' leads to EASTER.
456 08/12/1938 Latin. Virgil Pollux Lights are entered in Latin; clues concern works of Virgil.
457 15/12/1938 Cross-number Abdul Numerical puzzle; clues are of the form (a,b,c) where a + c = 2b and a + b, a + c, b + c are all squares.
458 22/12/1938 ‘Christmas Thoughts’ Doggerel Clues concern Christmas.
459 29/12/1938 Football II Scorpio Clues concern football; some lights form 'SHOOTS AGAINST THE DUSKY POLE FACING TOWARD THE OTHER GOAL'.
460 05/01/1939 Alphabet Proton 26 lights begin with different letters; the others, clued by quotations, all begin with S.
461 12/01/1939 Graeco-Roman Pollux Across lights are entered in Latin, down in Greek.
462 19/01/1939 ‘Burns’ Doggerel Clues concern works of Burns.
463 26/01/1939 ‘Parson’s Pleasure’ Afrit Clues concern clerical matters.
464 02/02/1939 Question and Answer Scorpio Lights are homophones of questions, to which the clues are answers; clues also contain definitions.
465 09/02/1939 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
466 16/02/1939 Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 4 Proton Clues concern chemistry.
467 23/02/1939 ‘A Literary Crossword’ Doggerel Grid is Times-style; clues concern literary works.
468 02/03/1939 ‘Absent Friends’ Afrit Lights are words omitted from a poem, including 38 surnames; the remainder is presented with gaps closed and different line spacing.
469 09/03/1939 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
470 16/03/1939 Kaleidoscopic Tiber Normal.
471 23/03/1939 Football — III Scorpio Certain squares are occupied by two teams of football players.
472 30/03/1939 Chapter Headings II Proton Most clues are incomplete chapter headings.
473 06/04/1939 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
474 13/04/1939 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
475 20/04/1939 ‘Two minus One’ Afrit Each clue leads to three words, of which the third is contained in the juxtaposition of the first two; the light is the remainder.
476 27/04/1939 Bridge II Scorpio Clues concern bridge; unclued lights form 'HIS VERY SERVICEABLE SUIT OF BLACK WAS COURTLY ONCE'.
477 04/05/1939 Music — IV Proton Clues concern music.
478 11/05/1939 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
479 18/05/1939 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
480 25/05/1939 ‘Printer’s Devilry’ — II Afrit Clues are PD.
481 01/06/1939 ‘L.S.D.’ Scorpio Clues concern money.
482 08/06/1939 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
483 15/06/1939 ‘Astronomy’ Proton Clues concern astronomy.
484 22/06/1939 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
485 29/06/1939 ‘Acrostic’ Afrit Initial letters of lights spell THE CROSSWORD SETTER (across) and THE DOG HAS HIS POINTS (down).
486 06/07/1939 ‘Cricket’ Scorpio Clues concern cricket; unclued lights form 'THAT CROWDED HOUR OF GLORIOUS LIVES - TEN OF THEM, ALL FROM DRIVES!'
487 13/07/1939 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
488 20/07/1939 ‘Cryptonym’ Proton 10 lights are encoded using the middle two rows of the grid, containing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order; each letter becomes that above or below it. KEY: Hudibras
489 27/07/1939 ‘Re-Hash III’ Doggerel Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.
490 03/08/1939 ‘Cross-number XVI’ Afrit Numerical puzzle concerning triangles with integral sides and area.
491 10/08/1939 Latin Poets at Brundisium Pollux Narrative put together from quotations from Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil and Horace; lights are entered in Latin.
492 17/08/1939 H.C.F. Scorpio Clues in each direction are given in alphabetical order of their lights; clues are also given to words which can be formed from the letters common to two lights of the same length.
493 24/08/1939 ‘Bret Harte’ Doggerel Clues concern works of Bret Harte.
494 31/08/1939 Art — II Proton Clues concern art.
495 07/09/1939 Twisted Clues Scorpio Clues have been anagrammatised word by word, one word sometimes becoming two or more.
496 14/09/1939 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek.
497 21/09/1939 ‘Extra Helpful’ Afrit Normal.
498 28/09/1939 ‘Miscellaneous’ Doggerel Normal.
499 05/10/1939 Golf Proton Clues concern golf.
500 12/10/1939 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
501 19/10/1939 Dead Letters Scorpio Each light loses a letter on entry; omitted letters exhaust the alphabet twice.
502 26/10/1939 Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 5 Proton Clues concern chemistry.
503 02/11/1939 ‘Biblical IX’ Afrit Solutions are words in the A.V. or R.V. text or margin.
504 09/11/1939 Geometry Scorpio Clues concern geometry.
505 16/11/1939 Miscellaneous Doggerel Normal.
506 23/11/1939 ‘El-em-en-tary’ Jabberwock Each letter E in the lights is replaced by L, M or N (as given by the intersecting light).
507 30/11/1939 Anglo-French Proton Across lights are in English, down in French.
508 07/12/1939 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek.
509 14/12/1939 Names III Scorpio Most of the unchecked letters are arranged in twelve classes; the letters within each can be arranged to form a name, which is clued.
510 21/12/1939 ‘Acrostic II’ Afrit Initial letters of lights spell PROPER GOOSE GOBBLES GOEBBELS PROPAGANDA.
511 28/12/1939 ‘Gambits’ Josephus Many clues involve quotations, taken from the opening sentences of literary works.
512 04/01/1940 Music V Proton Clues concern music.
513 11/01/1940 General Doggerel Clues are couplets.
514 18/01/1940 H.C.F. II Scorpio Clues in each direction are given in alphabetical order of their lights; clues are also given to words which can be formed from the letters common to two lights of the same length.
515 25/01/1940 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
516 01/02/1940 Alphabet II Proton 26 lights begin with different letters; the others all begin with A.
517 08/02/1940 Cross Number Abdul Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to x¦ ¦ y¦ = pz¦ for p prime and < 100.
518 15/02/1940 Crossword No. 518 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
519 22/02/1940 ‘Old Gems’ Doggerel Normal.
520 29/02/1940 General Sirius Normal.
521 07/03/1940 Blue Pencil Scorpio Each clue has omitted letters which appear in the light.
522 14/03/1940 Crossword No. 522 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
523 21/03/1940 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek capitals.
524 28/03/1940 General Sirius Normal.
525 04/04/1940 Architecture Proton Clues concern architecture.
526 11/04/1940 Crossword No. 526 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
527 18/04/1940 ‘Inns’ Doggerel Clues concern inns.
528 25/04/1940 Crossword No. 528 Sirius Normal.
529 02/05/1940 ‘Word-Ladder II’ Afrit Lights are rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder; some, and the other rungs, are clued.
530 09/05/1940 Crossword No. 530 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
531 16/05/1940 Aviation Proton Clues concern aviation.
532 23/05/1940 Crossword No. 532 Sirius Normal.
533 30/05/1940 ‘Thomas Hardy’ Doggerel Clues refer to novels of Thomas Hardy.
534 06/06/1940 Crossword No. 534 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
535 13/06/1940 ‘Slang and the Like’ Jabberwock Clues concern slang.
536 20/06/1940 Crossword No. 536 Sirius Normal.
537 27/06/1940 Cross-number Algy Numerical puzzle with lights forming Pythagorean triples.
538 04/07/1940 A Little Bit of Nonsense Sirius Narrative; grid is Times-style.
539 11/07/1940 ‘Catullus’ Doggerel Clues concern poems of Catullus.
540 18/07/1940 Crossword No. 540 Sirius Normal.
541 25/07/1940 ‘Re-Hash IV’ Doggerel Clues are taken from earlier puzzles by Doggerel.
542 01/08/1940 Crossword No. 542 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
543 08/08/1940 Mishmash Tracer Normal.
544 15/08/1940 Crossword No. 544 Sirius Normal.
545 22/08/1940 Checking Up Scorpio Normal with no unchecked letters.
546 29/08/1940 A Nursery Flavour Sirius Grid is Times-style; clues relate to nursery rhymes.
547 05/09/1940 ‘Double Acrostic’ Afrit Initial and final letters of across lights spell 'GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND' and ENGLAND, HOME AND BEAUTY respectively.
548 12/09/1940 Colourful Sirius All across lights are words or phrases prefaced by colours.
549 19/09/1940 Chess Proton Central 8 x 8 square is shaded as a chess-board, with 16 pieces acting as blocked squares; clues are all thematic.
550 26/09/1940 Crossword No. 550 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
551 03/10/1940 Latin Word-Ladder Pollux Lights are rungs of a 6-letter Latin word-ladder; some, and the other rungs, are clued.
552 10/10/1940 Crossword No. 552 Sirius Normal.
553 17/10/1940 ‘Means Test’ Jabberwock Clues ending in question-marks are misdefinitions of the lights, e.g. 'Remove from bed?' leads to DEBUNK.
554 24/10/1940 Crossword No. 554 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
555 31/10/1940 Anglo-French 2 Proton Across lights are in English, down in French.
556 07/11/1940 Crossword No. 556 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
557 14/11/1940 Mishmash Tracer Normal; main diagonals are also clued.
558 21/11/1940 Crossword No. 558 Sirius Normal.
559 28/11/1940 ‘Spitfire and Hurricane’ Jabberwock Most clues concern dragons and winds.
560 05/12/1940 Crossword No. 560 Sirius Normal.
561 12/12/1940 ‘Printer’s Devilry III’ Afrit Clues are PD.
562 19/12/1940 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek capitals.
563 26/12/1940 Crossword No. 563 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
564 02/01/1941 Crossword No. 564 Sirius Normal.
565 09/01/1941 ‘General’ Doggerel Normal.
566 16/01/1941 Crossword No. 566 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
567 23/01/1941 Triple Entente 1 Proton NW-SE diagonals are all words, and are clued.
568 30/01/1941 Crossword No. 568 Sirius Normal.
569 06/02/1941 Crossword No. 569 Jabberwock Normal.
570 13/02/1941 Crossword No. 570 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
571 20/02/1941 Rhymeless Scorpio Clues are couplets from which the last word has been removed.
572 27/02/1941 Crossword No. 572 Sirius Normal.
573 06/03/1941 Brevities II Doggerel Some lights contain SIGNS or SYMBOLS, e.g. TER-, NON+.
574 13/03/1941 Crossword No. 574 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
575 20/03/1941 A Rainy Theme Joxon Several lights are CATs or DOGs.
576 27/03/1941 Crossword No. 576 Sirius Normal.
577 03/04/1941 Alphabet III Proton 26 lights begin with different letters; the others begin with vowels.
578 10/04/1941 Crossword No. 578 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
579 17/04/1941 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
580 24/04/1941 Geographical Sirius Several lights are place-names.
581 01/05/1941 Today Joxon Clues concern May Day.
582 08/05/1941 Crossword No. 582 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
583 15/05/1941 Engineering? Tracer Some clues concern engineering.
584 22/05/1941 Services Sirius Normal.
585 29/05/1941 Question and Answer — II Scorpio Lights are homophones of questions, to which the clues are answers; clues also contain definitions.
586 05/06/1941 Crossword No. 586 Sirius Grid is Times-style.
587 12/06/1941 Pisces Proton Several lights are names of fish.
588 19/06/1941 June Joxon Clues concern the month of June.
589 26/06/1941 Rhymeless II Scorpio Clues are couplets from which the last word has been removed.
590 03/07/1941 Crossword No. 590 Sirius Normal.
591 10/07/1941 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
592 17/07/1941 A Burning Question Joxon Several clues concern FIRE.
593 24/07/1941 Analysis of Unknown Solution, No. 6 Proton Clues concern chemistry.
594 31/07/1941 General Doggerel Normal.
595 07/08/1941 Plain Joxon Several lights are anagrams of PLAIN.
596 14/08/1941 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
597 21/08/1941 Question and Answer III Scorpio Lights are omitted from lines of verse, which form rhyming couplets of questions and answers.
598 28/08/1941 Clericlews Proton Several lights are omitted from five clerihews.
599 04/09/1941 Dvorák Centenary Kick Clues concern Dvorßk.
600 11/09/1941 Creators and Creatures Jabberwock 18 6-letter unclued lights are the names of authors and characters from their works.
601 18/09/1941 General Sirius Normal.
602 25/09/1941 Nursery Rhymes Doggerel Clues concern nursery rhymes.
603 02/10/1941 A Bit Fishy Joxon Several lights are names of fish.
604 09/10/1941 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
605 16/10/1941 Triple Entente II Proton NW-SE diagonals are all words, and are clued.
606 23/10/1941 Transquotations Scorpio Each clue is a quotation, in which one word (the light) has been replaced by a word from one of the other quotations.
607 30/10/1941 Menagerie Jabberwock 26 unclued lights are 'names' of animals in real life, art etc.; their initials exhaust the alphabet.
608 06/11/1941 A Little Rugger Sirius Grid is Times-style.
609 13/11/1941 A Literary Crossword Doggerel Grid is Times-style.
610 20/11/1941 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek capitals.
611 27/11/1941 Rare (and, I Hope, Refreshing!) Joxon Normal.
612 04/12/1941 General Sirius Normal.
613 11/12/1941 Alphabet IV Proton 26 lights begin with different letters; the others begin with vowels.
614 18/12/1941 Mishmash Tracer Normal.
615 25/12/1941 One Hundred Years Ago Lingo Several clues are incomplete quotations from works written or first published in 1841.
616 01/01/1942 General Sirius Normal.
617 08/01/1942 Theme I Proton Each across light contains 3 consecutive letters in alphabetical order, e.g. CALMNESS.
618 15/01/1942 Lisped in Numbers Scorpio Narrative in verse.
619 22/01/1942 Mathematical Algy Clues concern mathematics.
620 29/01/1942 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
621 05/02/1942 Freedom Doggerel Clues concern freedom; unclued lights form 'WE MUST BE FREE OR DIE, WHO SPEAK THE TONGUE THAT SHAKESPEARE SPAKE; THE FAITH AND MORALS HOLD WHICH MILTON HELD'.
622 12/02/1942 Aeronautical Kick Clues concern aeroplanes.
623 19/02/1942 Theme II Proton Across lights are pairs of words which can be spoonerised; clues define both halves in each version.
624 26/02/1942 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
625 05/03/1942 A Bit Fishy (2) Joxon Clues concern fish.
626 12/03/1942 White Knight’s Move Jabberwock Quotation clues lead to words which define the lights.
627 19/03/1942 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
628 26/03/1942 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
629 02/04/1942 Spring Joxon Clues concern spring.
630 09/04/1942 221B Revisited Peter Quince Italicised clues refer to Sherlock Holmes stories.
631 16/04/1942 The Journey Systemat Numerical puzzle concerning a journey.
632 23/04/1942 Food for Thought Doggerel Clues concern food.
633 30/04/1942 General Sirius Normal.
634 07/05/1942 Smoking Concert Proton Clues concern smoking.
635 14/05/1942 Puzzled Puzzlers Scorpio Several lights are anagrams of setters.
636 21/05/1942 Two to One Bar One Joxon Normal.
637 28/05/1942 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
638 04/06/1942 Gambits II Josephus Many clues involve quotations, taken from the opening sentences of literary works.
639 11/06/1942 Dickens Dexter Grid is Times-style; clues concern Dickens.
640 18/06/1942 Music VI Proton Clues concern music.
641 25/06/1942 General Sirius Normal.
642 02/07/1942 Differences Tracer Each clue defines two words; the light is an anagram of the difference between them. Unclued lights form 'COME, SIR, ARISE, AWAY! I'LL TEACH YOU DIFFERENCES'.
643 09/07/1942 Summer Joxon Clues concern summer.
644 16/07/1942 Loose Couplings Scorpio Normal.
645 23/07/1942 ‘Of Cabbages — and Kings’ Jabberwock Clues quote the song of the Walrus and the Carpenter.
646 30/07/1942 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
647 06/08/1942 Lettergram I Proton Across lights may run from the end of one row to the beginning of the next; ignoring bars, they read as an excerpt from a business letter.
648 13/08/1942 Proverbial Jabberwock Many clues refer to proverbs.
649 20/08/1942 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin.
650 27/08/1942 General Sirius Normal.
651 03/09/1942 The Office Systemat Numerical puzzle concerning an office.
652 10/09/1942 Gilbert and Sullivan Joxon Clues refer to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
653 17/09/1942 Logogriph Tracer Central row contains DUELIST and CHAMFRON; all other lights are made up of these letters.
654 24/09/1942 General Sirius Normal.
655 01/10/1942 Tennyson Doggerel Grid is Times-style; clues refer to works of Tennyson (died 06/10/1892).
656 08/10/1942 Soulless Jim All except four lights lose ST on entry.
657 15/10/1942 Jigsaw Jabberwock Seven clued 7-letter lights each divide into a 3- and a 4-letter word; these are entered elsewhere.
658 22/10/1942 Theme III Proton Each across light contains 3 consecutive vowels.
659 29/10/1942 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
660 05/11/1942 Numerical Kryptos Each clue gives the positions of the letters of the light in alphabetical order, e.g. 5-1-9-2-12-3-8-11-6-10-4-7 leads to CARAVANSERAI.
661 12/11/1942 Anagrammatical Tracer Each light is an anagram of the answer to the clue.
662 19/11/1942 Dead Letters I Scorpio Each answer loses its initial letter on entry; the omissions exhaust the alphabet twice.
663 26/11/1942 General Sirius Normal.
664 03/12/1942 Greek Word-Ladder Pollux Lights are rungs of a 6-letter Greek word-ladder.
665 10/12/1942 The Little Farm Systemat Numerical puzzle concerning a farm.
666 17/12/1942 The Unnecessary Letter Algy Most lights lose at least one Z on entry.
667 24/12/1942 Inexcusable Ignorance Peter Quince All clues and lights are taken from the A.V. of the Bible.
668 31/12/1942 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
669 07/01/1943 Lays of the Laureate Lingo Clues are incomplete quotations from poems written by Poets Laureate.
670 14/01/1943 Miscellaneous Joxon Normal.
671 21/01/1943 Theme IV Proton Final letters of across lights exhaust the alphabet.
672 28/01/1943 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
673 04/02/1943 Zoo Redling Most clues concern animals.
674 11/02/1943 A Mixed Bag Nimrod Normal.
675 18/02/1943 Analogonyms Tesremos Across lights are formed by analogy, e.g. SARUM = SALISBURY, so ALARUM = ALALISBURY.
676 25/02/1943 General Sirius Normal.
677 04/03/1943 Abbrevanagram Potomac Lights are acronymic anagrams of the answers.
678 11/03/1943 Artists Jim Clues concern artists.
679 18/03/1943 Sums Tracer Each clue defines two or more words, a composite anagram of which is the light; unclued lights form 'SUCH SUM OR SUMS AS ARE EXPRESSED IN THE CONDITION'.
680 25/03/1943 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
681 01/04/1943 Remus Rebus Blackrock Clues are taken from works of Uncle Remus.
682 08/04/1943 A Pretty Kettle of Fish Joxon Lights are names of fish.
683 15/04/1943 Towns Babs Clues framed as questions have towns as answers, e.g. 'How did the concert go?' leads to SINGAPORE.
684 22/04/1943 Puzzled Puzzlers Scorpio 8 perimeter words together form an anagram of 8 setters.
685 29/04/1943 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
686 06/05/1943 Word Sums I Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
687 13/05/1943 Chessboard Tesremos Grid is a chessboard; there are no pawns. Each piece has two lights entered on two double moves.
688 20/05/1943 A Few Quotations Sirius Grid is Times-style; some clues are incomplete quotations.
689 27/05/1943 Swan-Song Doggerel Clues are paired to form couplets.
690 03/06/1943 Unbelievable Tale Tracer Narrative involving EDWIN DROOD; diagonals spell DO NOT BELIEVE IT and LIST A BRIEF TALE.
691 10/06/1943 Ten Characters in Search of their Authors Babs 10 characters and authors are unclued.
692 17/06/1943 Cryptogram Cocos All clues are encoded by adding COCOSCOCOS...
693 24/06/1943 General Sirius Normal.
694 01/07/1943 10A 11 Tracer Diagonals spell IMPONDERABLES and ASTARTE/OSIRIS; unclued lights form 'SEE MYSTERY TO MATHEMATICS FLY! IN VAIN!'
695 08/07/1943 Alphabet 5 Proton 26 lights begin with different letters; the others begin with vowels.
696 15/07/1943 Latin: Poets in Tunisia Pollux Narrative as Latin dialogue between Vergil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid, each quoting from one of the others' works.
697 22/07/1943 General Sirius Normal.
698 29/07/1943 Crossnumber: 121 Base Abdul Numerical puzzle concerning 24 triangles with integral sides and areas.
699 05/08/1943 Franco-British Medley Pangloss Clues are in English, lights in French.
700 12/08/1943 Topped and Tailed Babs 13 clues are italicised; their lights are anagrams of the answers with first and last letters removed, these exhausting the alphabet.
701 19/08/1943 Exempli Gratia Peter Quince Many lights are figures of speech clued by examples.
702 26/08/1943 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
703 02/09/1943 Diagonal Cocos Lights are entered diagonally.
704 09/09/1943 Anagram Tangram III Proton Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
705 16/09/1943 Getting Poets Down Scorpio Across clues are incomplete quotations from poetry; down lights are the poets.
706 23/09/1943 Clothes Ration Jabberwock Clues concern clothes.
707 30/09/1943 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
708 07/10/1943 Wheels within Wheels Tracer Across lights are synonyms of LIVE or DIE; unclued lights form 'THOUGH TO ITSELF IT ONLY LIVE AND DIE'.
709 14/10/1943 Untied Anagrams Babs Each italicised clue leads to a word ending in -TY; this suffix is to be removed and an anagram of the remainder entered.
710 21/10/1943 Largely Nominal Jabberwock Quotation clues lead to proper nouns appearing somewhere in the work cited.
711 28/10/1943 General Sirius Normal.
712 04/11/1943 The 2 5 Proton Narrative concerning the COMPLEAT LISTENER.
713 11/11/1943 Fifth Calumny Jim 17 clues are anagrams of coded versions of the lights, the encoding being by adding a different letter in each case.
714 18/11/1943 Overlapping Scorpio Grid is blank; lights within a row or column overlap.
715 25/11/1943 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
716 02/12/1943 Doublets Tesremos Each clue is used twice.
717 09/12/1943 Olla Podrida Joxon Normal.
718 16/12/1943 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
719 23/12/1943 Nuts to Crack Tracer Across clues are of the form GEWD (= WINGED), leading to ALATE.
720 30/12/1943 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
721 06/01/1944 Measure for Measure Potomac Across lights are all measures, clued by the sums of their component letters, treated as Roman numerals.
722 13/01/1944 Knight’s Move Cocos Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
723 20/01/1944 Anglo-French Proton Across lights are in English, down in French.
724 27/01/1944 General Sirius Unclued lights form 'BRING ME MY BOW OF BURNING GOLD, ... ARROWS OF DESIRE, ... SPEAR, ... CHARIOT OF FIRE ... MENTAL FIGHT ... SWORD'
725 03/02/1944 Anagramania Pangloss Lights are anagrams of answers to clues.
726 10/02/1944 Signed Lines Lingo Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are the words or parts thereof omitted, forming anagrams of the poets' names.
727 17/02/1944 Dead Letters II Scorpio Each answer loses its initial letter on entry; the omissions exhaust the alphabet twice.
728 24/02/1944 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
729 02/03/1944 Jig-Shaw Potomac Clues in each direction are arranged in order of length of light; initial letters of lights spell 'IN GOOD KING CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS' - G.B.S.
730 09/03/1944 Olla Podrida II Joxon Normal.
731 16/03/1944 Venture atte Bowe Dugovt Grid is Times-style; clues and lights are in French.
732 23/03/1944 Hexads Tracer All lights are 6-letter; 16 have two identical halves (e.g. MOTMOT), and clues refer only to one half.
733 30/03/1944 General Jim Normal.
734 06/04/1944 Knight’s Move II Cocos Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
735 13/04/1944 Puzzled Puzzlers Scorpio Unclued lights form 'THOU HAST FRIGHTED THE WORD OUT OF HIS RIGHT SENSE SO FORCIBLE IS THY WIT'.
736 20/04/1944 Square-sided Triangles Abdul Numerical puzzle concerning pairs of triangles with integral sides and areas, two of whose sides are perfect squares.
737 27/04/1944 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
738 04/05/1944 A Pretty Kettle of Fish Joxon Clues concern angling.
739 11/05/1944 Pig in a Poke Babs Across lights are entered in the manner of FORTINBRAS becoming BRAFORTS.
740 18/05/1944 Nouns for Towns Tracer 18 clues lead to nouns, the first half of which are to be changed to form towns, e.g. TUBEROSE leads to MONTROSE.
741 25/05/1944 Kipling Sirius Clues refer to works of Kipling.
742 01/06/1944 Lovers’ ABC Tesremos Across lights are 23 adjectives, beginning with different letters of the alphabet, used in a passage from Don Quixote to describe what a lover should be.
743 08/06/1944 Lettergram II Proton Across lights may run from the end of one row to the beginning of the next; ignoring bars, they read as an excerpt from a legal document.
744 15/06/1944 Common Factor Rex Clues are linked in couplets; the first three or more letters of the first answer of each pair appear at the beginning of the second, and are omitted in one or other position when entered.
745 22/06/1944 Midsummer Night’s Theme Blackrock Clues refer to fairies.
746 29/06/1944 General Sirius Normal.
747 06/07/1944 Colourless Babs Answers are words or phrases whose first part is a colour, removed on entry.
748 13/07/1944 Elemental Tracer Lights may each be split into two or more words; clues define these in order. Unclued lights form 'FIRST UNDO THIS TANGLED THREAD, AND WIND IT TO A CLUE'.
749 20/07/1944 G.B.S. Jabberwock Clues refer to Shavian plays.
750 27/07/1944 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
751 03/08/1944 Greek Castor Lights are entered in Greek capitals; there are no unchecked letters.
752 10/08/1944 Extensive and Peculiar Peter Quince Clues refer to the Pickwick Papers.
753 17/08/1944 Word Sums 2 Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
754 24/08/1944 Knight’s Move III Cocos Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
755 31/08/1944 General Sirius Normal.
756 07/09/1944 Code Scorpio 24 clues lead to answers of the form ___IS___, e.g. PISTOL, AISLE; these give the code used for the remaining clues.
757 14/09/1944 Meet Dr. Romelle Pangloss Narrative concerning a murder.
758 21/09/1944 Spellbound Marcus Clues are one-word definitions of (approximate) homonyms of the lights.
759 28/09/1944 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
760 05/10/1944 Gilbert and Sullivan (II) Joxon Clues refer to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
761 12/10/1944 Unbelievable Tale II Tracer Narrative involving ANTONY and CLEOPATRA; diagonals spell 'A POOR RELATION' and 'FORGIVE ME THAT'.
762 19/10/1944 Azoonyms Tesremos Across answers lose animals to form the lights.
763 26/10/1944 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
764 02/11/1944 Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 7 Proton Clues concern chemistry.
765 09/11/1944 ‘I Lisp’d in Numbers’ Scorpio Clues are the products of the numerical values of the letters in the lights.
766 16/11/1944 Knight’s Move IV Cocos Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
767 23/11/1944 Hara-Kiri Rex Each clue defines two words; the first is removed from the second to form the light.
768 30/11/1944 General Sirius Normal.
769 07/12/1944 Literary Curiosity Babs Narrative poem.
770 14/12/1944 Aircraft Recognition Scorpio Most clues are incomplete quotations, concerning names of aircraft; unclued lights form 'LET BRISKER YOUTHS THEIR ACTIVE NERVES PREPARE, FIT THEIR LIGHT SILKEN WINGS AND SKIM THE BUXOM AIR'.
771 21/12/1944 Tied in Knots Nimrod A spiral reads 'AT CHRISTMAS I NO MORE DESIRE A ROSE THAN WISH A SNOW IN MAY'S NEW-FANGLED MIRTH'.
772 28/12/1944 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
773 04/01/1945 Jig-Shaw — II Potomac Clues in each direction are arranged in order of length of light; initial letters of lights spell CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION - STRAND.
774 11/01/1945 Trilemma Nicholas Each clue defines two anagrams of the light.
775 18/01/1945 Asymbolic Cocos Each answer begins with a different chemical element, which is removed to form the light.
776 25/01/1945 General Sirius Normal.
777 01/02/1945 Semi-Pseudonyms Lingo Most lights are pseudonyms and real surnames of authors.
778 08/02/1945 Olla Podrida (III) Joxon Normal.
779 15/02/1945 Chop and Change Jim All clues have been divided in two, with the second half appearing elsewhere.
780 22/02/1945 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
781 01/03/1945 Algebra Dixie Numerical puzzle.
782 08/03/1945 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Tesremos Lights are grouped in threes, one being animal, one vegetable and one mineral. Clues are to homophones of the three run together, e.g. 'I Susan, a lover of ale, regret liquor burning' leads to "I, beery Sue, ruw booze afire" which gives IBERIS, URUBU, SAP
783 15/03/1945 Mishmash Tracer Top left-hand corner of grid is almost a 7-letter word square.
784 22/03/1945 The Knights Move Cocos Down lights are normal; others travel by knight's moves.
785 29/03/1945 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
786 05/04/1945 Cryptonym 2 Proton Perimeter lights are encoded using the middle two rows of the grid, containing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order; each letter becomes that above or below it. KEY: Palmerston
787 12/04/1945 This and That Marcus 15 clues lead to pairs of lights, one entered across and one down so that they intersect, in locations to be discovered.
788 19/04/1945 Dead Letters III Scorpio Each answer loses its initial letter on entry; the omissions exhaust the alphabet twice.
789 26/04/1945 General Sirius Normal.
790 03/05/1945 Plus-Words Potomac Each answer must have a letter inserted to form the light (another word); the missing letter appears in the clue in the required position, e.g. 'Mix up a rich mate' leads to RHEMATIC which becomes RHEUMATIC.
791 10/05/1945 Victory Acrostic Tesremos Initial letters of lights spell 'WITH FREEDOM'S LION-BANNER BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES'.
792 17/05/1945 The Anagrammatist’s Library Lingo Clues are anagrams of titles and authors; lights are significant words from the titles.
793 24/05/1945 Prime-itive Abdul Numerical puzzle concerning arithmetic progressions of primes.
794 31/05/1945 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
795 07/06/1945 In Your Garden Pangloss Narrative concerning plants.
796 14/06/1945 16-42 17-39 Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a poem.
797 21/06/1945 Questionnaire Proton Clues are in the form of questions.
798 28/06/1945 General Sirius Normal.
799 05/07/1945 Stichomuthia Marcus Lights may each be split into two or more words; each is clued by a line originally containing these words, in which they have been replaced by a synonym of the light.
800 12/07/1945 Poetic Numbers Scorpio Each clue (often a fragment of verse) contains a number which is represented by x and which gives the position of the light.
801 19/07/1945 The Prisoner’s Warning Tesremos Central 5 x 5 square of grid reads ENEMY MINES UNDER NORTH ORIEL.
802 26/07/1945 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
803 02/08/1945 Theme V Proton Grid is Times-style; across lights are all anagrams of authors.
804 09/08/1945 Arquairium Jabberwock Many lights are names of living creatures.
805 16/08/1945 First Names Redling Clues lead to literary surnames; lights are corresponding first names.
806 23/08/1945 Return of Peace Scorpio Narrative celebrating end of war.
807 30/08/1945 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
808 06/09/1945 Last Words Potomac Many lights are last words of poems.
809 13/09/1945 Gilbert and Sullivan (III) Joxon Clues refer to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
810 20/09/1945 Once Removed Tracer Central row and column read 'TOO FAR REMOVED' and 'SO NEAR RELATED'; most clues are one-word synonyms of synonyms of the lights (using different meanings).
811 27/09/1945 General Sirius Normal.
812 04/10/1945 15 Down and 20 Across Babs Some lights are omitted from a verse about Babs' pseudonym.
813 11/10/1945 Aphytonyms Tesremos Each across light loses something of vegetable nature on entry.
814 18/10/1945 Verbarium I Proton Down lights, all 4-letter, are mainly entered jumbled; anagrams of the rows are given. The grid spells a passage of verse beginning SING A SONG OF CROSSWORDS, SOLVERS OFT REGALED.
815 25/10/1945 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
816 01/11/1945 Latin Pollux Lights are entered in Latin; some form 'TE, GERMANIA, MAGNI TRISTE CAPUT PEDIBUS SUPPOSUISSE IRATI'.
817 08/11/1945 A Letter Retlaw Narrative in epistolatory form.
818 15/11/1945 Knight’s Move V Cocos Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
819 22/11/1945 Partial Eclipse Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters ECL in some order.
820 29/11/1945 General Sirius Normal.
821 06/12/1945 Elemental II Tracer Lights may each be split into two or more words; clues define these in order.
822 13/12/1945 ‘For the Subtile Man’ Tyke Lights are polynomials in x, with one term per square.
823 20/12/1945 Square Deal B.O.D. Central 5 x 5 square (almost isolated) is a Playfair codesquare; most lights are en clair with coded clues, while a few are coded and have en clair clues. KEY: Countryside
824 27/12/1945 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
825 03/01/1946 Winter Joxon Clues refer to winter (many being quotations); some lights are jumbled.
826 10/01/1946 Spellbound II Marcus Clues are one-word definitions of (approximate) homonyms of the lights.
827 17/01/1946 Jig-Shaw III Potomac Clues in each direction are arranged in order of length of light; initial letters of lights spell LINA SZCZEPANOWSKA and EUGENE MARCHBANKS.
828 24/01/1946 Double Acrostic I Tesremos Initial and final letters of across lights spell 'THUS IN THE STILLY NIGHT' and 'BY THE NINE GODS HE SWORE' respectively.
829 31/01/1946 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
830 07/02/1946 Anagrammatist’s Anthology Lingo Clues are anagrams of titles and authors; lights are significant words from the titles.
831 14/02/1946 Pandore as Bocks Proton Across clues lead to words which, followed by AS and the light, form homophones of phrases, e.g. DULY leads to SEIZER, TIGHT leads to OATES.
832 21/02/1946 Hue and Cry Marcus Grid is blank; bars when inserted form HI THE THIEF FLIETH.
833 28/02/1946 General Sirius Normal.
834 07/03/1946 Literal Mathematics Scorpio Each letter is entered as its numerical residue modulo 5.
835 14/03/1946 Knight’s Move VI Cocos 26 lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are entered along knight's moves from isolated areas.
836 21/03/1946 8 41 Babs Narrative; bar pattern resembles a windmill.
837 28/03/1946 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
838 04/04/1946 Word-Ladder Tracer Lights are unclued rungs of three word-ladders.
839 11/04/1946 Purely Nominal Joxon Lights are names, mainly from literature.
840 18/04/1946 Double-Barrelled Tesremos Grid has equal left and right halves apart from linking top row.
841 25/04/1946 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
842 02/05/1946 Spring Balance B.O.D. Narrative in the form of a poem about spring; the first two lines, to be traced in the grid, are 'DELIGHT IT IS IN YOUTH AND MAY TO SEE THE SUN ARISE'.
843 09/05/1946 Algebra II Dixie Numerical puzzle.
844 16/05/1946 Blessed Plot Nicholas Clues, mainly quotations, concern gardening.
845 23/05/1946 Code II Scorpio 12 lights have the form ___OR___, giving the code; these have normal clues, while others are encoded.
846 30/05/1946 General Sirius Normal.
847 06/06/1946 Plus-Words II Potomac Each answer must have a letter inserted to form the light (another word); the missing letter appears in the clue in the required position, e.g. 'Tug inferior horse' leads to TIT which becomes TITI.
848 13/06/1946 Theme VI Proton Across clues are titles of poems; lights, all words, are initial letters of consecutive lines of the poems.
849 20/06/1946 Index of First Lines Lingo Lights are first words of poems or songs; clues are remainders of first lines.
850 27/06/1946 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
851 04/07/1946 Eating Joxon Clues, mainly quotations, refer to eating; some lights are jumbled.
852 11/07/1946 Four Fours W. McNaught Numerical puzzle, with uniqueness of solution due only to the fact that all lights may be expressed using four fours.
853 18/07/1946 A Corner in History Ricardo 1 Across is CABAL; 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Down are CLIFFORD, ASHLEY, BUCKINGHAM, ARLINGTON and LAUDERDALE.
854 25/07/1946 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
855 01/08/1946 Feb-22 Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from 'THAN HONEY AND THE HONEYCOMB'.
856 08/08/1946 ‘Armchair’ Afrit Grid is blank.
857 15/08/1946 Withershins Cocos Across lights, all 4-letter, form a word-ladder with consecutive rungs contiguous; no clues are given to them.
858 22/08/1946 Double Acrostic II Tesremos Initial and final letters of across lights spell BARCHESTER TOWERS and FRAMLEY PARSONAGE respectively.
859 29/08/1946 General Sirius Grid is Times-style.
860 05/09/1946 One Remove Quod Each light has a single misprint, this being just before or just after the correct letter in the alphabet.
861 12/09/1946 I Lisp’d in Numbers II Scorpio Clues are the products of the numerical values of the letters in the lights.
862 19/09/1946 Trilemma — 2 Nicholas Each clue hints at the light and two anagrams thereof.
863 26/09/1946 Proem Altair Grid is Times-style.
864 03/10/1946 Appointment with Fear Pangloss Narrative concerning a haunted house.
865 10/10/1946 The X37-bibbing 37 Tracer Narrative (with X denoting anagram); diagonals spell 'PRONOUNCED THE STORY ONE LONG LIE'.
866 17/10/1946 Armchair II Afrit Grid is blank.
867 24/10/1946 Autumn Joxon Clues, mainly quotations, refer to autumn; some lights are jumbled.
868 31/10/1946 Lucky Dip Altair Grid is Times-style.
869 07/11/1946 Word Sums 3 Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
870 14/11/1946 Motley Mixture II Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a tale; diagonals, less corner letters, spell GALLIMAUFRY and NO MAD MIXING.
871 21/11/1946 Ex Libris Jabberwock Most across clues are alternative titles to books or works; most down clues are authors' initials leading to titles forming complete sentences; in each case, lights are significant words from the (main) titles.
872 28/11/1946 Cave Canem Altair Grid is Times-style.
873 05/12/1946 Two Sees Afrit Lights are entered diagonally, as traced by two bishops. Each clue leads as a whole to two answers, one for each bishop.
874 12/12/1946 Labyrinth Marcus Clues are to rows and columns of words and abbreviations; in the completed grid may be traced 'MAY THE BABYLONISH CURSE STRAIGHT CONFOUND MY STAMMERING VERSE IF I CAN A PASSAGE SEE IN THIS WORD-PERPLEXITY, OR A FIT EXPRESSION FIND, OR A LANGUAGE TO MY MIN
875 19/12/1946 Theme VII Proton In each direction the two diagonals on either side of the main one spell out the alphabet in QWERTY order.
876 26/12/1946 Bran Pie Altair Grid is Times-style.
877 02/01/1947 Romantic Jabberwock Unclued lights form 7 triplets of 'the time, the place and the loved one'.
878 09/01/1947 Word Squares Tracer Grid comprises 4 word-squares; the diagonals spell CROSSWORD PUZZLES. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
879 16/01/1947 Anonyms Tesremos Each across light loses a Christian name on entry.
880 23/01/1947 Double Anagrams Maragan Each clue has two parts: one is an anagram of a synonym of a light, the other a synonym of an anagram of it.
881 30/01/1947 A Bibful Altair Grid is Times-style.
882 06/02/1947 Mathematical W. McNaught Numerical puzzle.
883 13/02/1947 Drinking Joxon Clues refer to drinking; some lights are jumbled.
884 06/03/1947 Analysis of Unknown Solution No. 8 Proton Unclued lights are chemists, suggested very loosely by the first verse of Jabberwocky.
885 13/03/1947 Word-Ladder II Tracer Lights are unclued rungs in a word-ladder.
886 20/03/1947 Compromise Quod Each clue leads to two words, differing in two places; the light differs from each in just one place, e.g. CONTEND, CONSENT lead to CONTENT.
887 27/03/1947 Cabbage, but no Kings Altair Grid is Times-style.
888 03/04/1947 El-em-en-tary II Jabberwock The letters L, M and N are replaced by other letters to form new words.
889 10/04/1947 Wellerisms Hermes Clues are from the Pickwick Papers.
890 17/04/1947 Touchstone Afrit Unchecked letters across and down may be arranged to form 'THE COUNTERCHECK COURTEOUS' and 'THE RE-PROOF CIRCUMSTANTIAL' respectively.
891 24/04/1947 One for All Altair Grid is Times-style.
892 01/05/1947 Tobacco Joxon Clues refer to smoking; some lights are jumbled.
893 08/05/1947 Triplets Babs Each clued light loses its ending on entry; the endings, each serving three words, are entered as unclued lights.
894 15/05/1947 Motley Mixture III Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a tale.
895 22/05/1947 Double Acrostic III Tesremos Initial and final letters of across lights spell ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA and CANNOT A LADY TRAP ONE? respectively (the second being an anagram of the first).
896 29/05/1947 A Mixed Grill Altair Grid is Times-style.
897 05/06/1947 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek capitals; there are no unchecked letters.
898 12/06/1947 Brackets Jabberwock Each light is one word inside another; clues are similarly shaped.
899 19/06/1947 Word Sums — 4 Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
900 26/06/1947 For an Idle Hour Altair Grid is Times-style.
901 03/07/1947 Ornithological Wol Clues refer to birds; 24 lights are birds, described in random order in the preamble.
902 10/07/1947 Centenary Lingo All clues and lights are from JANE EYRE by CURRER BELL.
903 17/07/1947 Framed in Verse Tiber The four sides of the grid are opening lines of poems; the poets are also lights.
904 24/07/1947 Whatnot Altair Grid is Times-style.
905 31/07/1947 The Elusive Square Tyke Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to a¦ + b¦ = 3ab ¦ 1 (which are terms of the Fibonacci series).
906 07/08/1947 Honeycomb II Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically.
907 14/08/1947 The New Order Okapi The letters in each row and column are given in alphabetical order; the words of the grid may be reordered as ''BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY,' - THAT IS ALL YE KNOW ON EARTH, AND ALL YE NEED TO KNOW'.
908 21/08/1947 Olla Podrida Joxon Some lights are anagrams of answers.
909 28/08/1947 King without Cabbage Altair Grid is Times-style.
910 04/09/1947 Poet’s Paradise Marcus Narrative ode; in the completed grid may be traced 'SOULS OF POETS DEAD AND GONE, WHAT ELYSIUM HAVE YE KNOWN, HAPPY FIELD OR MOSSY CAVERH, CHOICER THAN THE MERMAID TAVERN? HAVE YE TIPPLED DRINK MORE FINE THAN MINE HOST'S CANARY WINE?'
911 11/09/1947 Diamond Afrit Diamond words (reading from centre of top row to centre of bottom row via centres of edge columns) are WITCHES' SABBATH and WEEKEND DEBAUCH.
912 18/09/1947 Limericks Babs Clues are successive lines of limericks; a spiral reads CONVOLUTIONS SUBORBICULAR REAGGRAVATE EURHYTHMIC CLEAR-EYED DEVOTEES SIFTING GENIAL LOGIC CRAMMED DOGGEREL.
913 25/09/1947 Pot Luck Altair Grid is Times-style.
914 02/10/1947 Re-pairing Quod All lights are 4- or 6-letter; half of each is entered correctly, the other half elsewhere to make a new word.
915 09/10/1947 Portmantelpiece Jabberwock 16 lights are portmanteau words, e.g. ABIGAILMENT (Housemaid's knee)
916 16/10/1947 Word-Squares II Tracer Grid comprises 9 word-squares; the top, central and bottom rows form three 11-letter words. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
917 23/10/1947 Block Letters Maragan Grid is in four just-connected quarters; clues are LL, with the same letter removed throughout each quarter and placed in the central blocked square - these spell ROTA.
918 30/10/1947 Pot-pourri Altair Grid is Times-style.
919 06/11/1947 Expansive Dixie Numerical puzzle involving squares and cubes; grid is Times-style.
920 13/11/1947 Motoring Nicholas Clues refer to motoring.
921 20/11/1947 Double-Barrelled II Tesremos Grid has equal left and right halves apart from linking top row.
922 27/11/1947 A Drop o’ Scotch Altair Grid is Times-style.
923 04/12/1947 These and Those Marcus 12 pairs of words meet in S on the main diagonal, e.g. SIXES and SEVENS.
924 11/12/1947 Free Association Babs 23 words form an unclued spiral, each suggesting the next, e.g. CHINA, TEA, TIME, PIECE.
925 18/12/1947 Trust Daphne! Tracer 11 positioning lights are clued; a spiral in the completed grid reads 'FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL, I PLUCK YOU OUT OF THE CRANNIES, I HOLD YOU HERE, ROOT AND ALL, IN MY HAND, LITTLE FLOWER - BUT IF I COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE, ROOT AND ALL, AND ALL I
926 25/12/1947 Holiday Task Altair Grid is Times-style.
927 01/01/1948 Cross Check Maragan Each answer loses a letter to form the light; many clues contain one or more italicised words, defining the lights.
928 08/01/1948 Circles Trand Numerical puzzle concerning points with integral co-ordinates on circles.
929 15/01/1948 First Names — II Redling Clues lead to literary surnames; lights are corresponding first names.
930 22/01/1948 Acrostic Quod Initial letters of clues spell THE INITIAL LETTERS OF ANSWERS IN THIS ORDER WILL FORM A VERSE; the result is 'AS A WHITE CANDLE IN A HOLY PLACE, SO IS THE BEAUTY OF AN AGED FACE'.
931 29/01/1948 The Play’s the Thing Altair Grid is Times-style.
932 05/02/1948 Verbarium Proton Down lights, all 4-letter, are mainly entered jumbled; anagrams of the rows are given. The grid spells a passage of verse beginning WILL A BOER RAISE A YAWN? DOES A LAPP NEED A PEAK?
933 12/02/1948 Selective Robyn The letters B, C, E, F, G, H, J and K stand for numbers, used in the clues, e.g. 'One of C' (= 12) leads to SAGITTARIUS.
934 19/02/1948 Diagonal Examples Scorpio Diagonals spell PANGRAMMATIST and ANAGRAMMATIST; certain lights provide examples.
935 26/02/1948 Parlez-Vous? Altair Grid is Times-style.
936 04/03/1948 Double Check Neon Each clue defines the light and leads to two anagrams or pseudo-anagrams of it.
937 11/03/1948 Examination Results Gadfly Numerical puzzle concerning numbers of students passing or failing four examinations.
938 18/03/1948 Framed in Verse Tiber The four sides of the grid spell last lines of poems concerning death; the poets are unclued lights.
939 25/03/1948 Missing Notes Altair Grid is Times-style.
940 01/04/1948 Double Demon Div Clues are double DLM; main diagonals and central column and row spell APRIL FOOL! THIS IS A WRONG SOLUTION - THERE'S ANOTHER ONE SO START OFF AGAIN in one grid and THIS POISSON D'AVRIL YIELDS TWO ALTERNATE RESOLUTIONS - THIS IS SOLVED OK in the other.
941 08/04/1948 Morse Proton Lights are entered in Morse code.
942 15/04/1948 The Little Devil Golbasto Numerical puzzle concerning the Pellian equation x¦ = 6y¦ + 1.
943 22/04/1948 Shakespeare Glaucus Lights (many in two or more pieces) are Shakespearean characters.
944 29/04/1948 Medley Altair Grid is Times-style.
945 06/05/1948 Doubles Babs Each clue is used twice.
946 13/05/1948 Centenary II Lingo Clues are quotations from DOMBEY AND SON by CHARLES DICKENS (completed 1848).
947 20/05/1948 Puns Asinorum Afrit Many clues have a geometrical flavour and almost all involve dreadful puns.
948 27/05/1948 Hotch-Potch Altair Grid is Times-style.
949 03/06/1948 Portrait Babs Narrative biography; bar pattern gives a face.
950 10/06/1948 Word-Ladder — III Tracer Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
951 17/06/1948 Knight’s Move VII Cocos Across lights are normal; down lights travel by knight's moves.
952 24/06/1948 What a Lark! Altair Grid is Times-style.
953 01/07/1948 Alphabetic Stephanus Read across, grid forms a continuous phrase, descriptive of the puzzle, of 26 words beginning with the different letters of the alphabet in turn; each column has a clue defining the words and abbreviations to be entered.
954 08/07/1948 Cubicals McNaught Numerical puzzle with certain lights being the difference of two cubes.
955 15/07/1948 What Says? Proton Each across light is clued 'phonetically', e.g. 'S says 1A' leads to OPHELIA (Essays of Elia).
956 22/07/1948 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
957 29/07/1948 Have a Go Altair Grid is Times-style.
958 05/08/1948 Quaternary Occid Clues are anagrams of synonyms of anagrams of the lights.
959 12/08/1948 22’s Alternative Scorpio Lights are unclued rungs of a ladder in which each word leads to the next by the change, addition or loss of a letter and reordering.
960 19/08/1948 Ornithological II Wol Clues concern birds.
961 26/08/1948 Holiday Task Altair Grid is Times-style.
962 02/09/1948 Abecedary Marcus The letters of each light are entered in alphabetical order.
963 09/09/1948 No Trumps Solo Numerical puzzle, clued by 'card values', e.g. SPADES = 64, so AS = 65, 2S = 66, ..., KS = 77.
964 16/09/1948 A Character from Dickens Hermes All lights concern CAP'EN CUTTLE.
965 23/09/1948 Honeycomb III Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically.
966 30/09/1948 Miscellany Altair Grid is Times-style.
967 07/10/1948 Word Sums — 5 Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
968 14/10/1948 Overflow Babs 24 clues lead to answers of which the first part (a word) is the light, and the second (another word) is a similar light elsewhere.
969 21/10/1948 Double Anagrams — II Maragan Each clue has two parts: one is an anagram of a synonym of a light, the other a synonym of an anagram of it.
970 28/10/1948 Mosaic Altair Grid is Times-style.
971 04/11/1948 Ellipses Trand Numerical puzzle concerning points with integral co-ordinates on ellipses.
972 11/11/1948 English History Lingo Clues relate to English history.
973 18/11/1948 Knight’s Move — VIII Cocos 26 lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are entered along knight's moves from isolated areas.
974 25/11/1948 Pastiche Altair Grid is Times-style.
975 02/12/1948 Figures of Speech Babs 7 lights are figures of speech exemplified in the clues.
976 09/12/1948 Threesomes Stephanus Clues define the light and its first and second parts.
977 16/12/1948 Reconstituted Poets Scorpio Clues are quotations; the lights are anagrams (of one or more words) of the authors.
978 23/12/1948 Just the Difference Div Two-word clues define two words, of which the second is to be subtracted from the first to leave the light. Reading the grid diagonally gives a seasonal quotation from Dickens.
979 30/12/1948 Happy New Year Altair Grid is Times-style.
980 06/01/1949 Motley Mixture — IV Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two 'poems'.
981 13/01/1949 State Monopolies Tiber 20 lights are popular names of American states, clued by anagrams; remaining clues have the same number of letters as their lights.
982 20/01/1949 Neological Proton Each of the 26 across lights may be augmented by interpolating one letter (A in the first, B in the second etc.) between the second and third letters; these longer words are defined in italics after the clues.
983 27/01/1949 Mixture as before Altair Grid is Times-style.
984 03/02/1949 Salmagundi Falambuco 7 lights are mixtures of answers, and are clued in brackets after the normal clues.
985 10/02/1949 Synogram A.E.S. Each clue contains one or more words whose letters are to be rearranged and another word (defined) removed to form the light.
986 17/02/1949 Mephisto — Pellian Jim Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of x¦ ¦ 1 = 2y¦, x¦ ¦ 1 = 5y¦, x¦ - 1 = 3y¦ and x¦ + 2 = 3y¦.
987 24/02/1949 Higgledy Altair Grid is Times-style.
988 03/03/1949 Little Pigley Farm, 1935 Surveyor Numerical puzzle concerning a farm.
989 10/03/1949 Square Deal Bod Some lights and half the clues are Playfair-coded, the codesquare forming the centre of the grid. KEY: Facetiously
990 17/03/1949 Greek Pollux Lights are entered in Greek capitals; there are no unchecked letters.
991 24/03/1949 Semi-Cipher Wol Across lights are entered encoded using a substitution cipher.
992 31/03/1949 Piggledy Altair Grid is Times-style.
993 07/04/1949 Polysyllabic Div Alternate rows and columns are 12-letter words, with each row being the same as the corresponding column; clues define component parts thereof in random order.
994 14/04/1949 BRTHRS (OE) Babs Narrative concerning two brothers; only consonants are entered.
995 21/04/1949 Squares and Cubes Trand Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of x¦ + y¦ = z¦.
996 28/04/1949 Try Your Luck Altair Grid is Times-style.
997 05/05/1949 Word Squares III Tracer Grid comprises 9 word-squares; the central row and column form two 11-letter words. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
998 12/05/1949 Morse 2 Proton Lights are entered in Morse code, each occupying 13 squares.
999 19/05/1949 Transposer Bod Across lights are all 12-letter, entered according to the alphabetical order of the letters in MOTHERS-IN-LAW (1 Across, unclued).
1000 26/05/1949 Jubilate Altair Grid is Times-style.
1001 02/06/1949 ‘The Thousand and one (K)nights’ Cocos Names of knights are entered along knight's moves; other lights are entered across. Letter sums of lights are also given; each square is used exactly twice.
1002 09/06/1949 Waverley Mixture Lingo Clues and lights refer to Scott's Waverley novels.
1003 16/06/1949 Helical Stephanus 26 lights spiral outwards from the centre, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet; there are 27 positioning lights.
1004 23/06/1949 Word Squares Septem Grid comprises 9 word-squares, each of whose NE-SW diagonals comprises a single letter. Anagrams are given of the 10 letters on and above the main NW-SE diagonal of each square.
1005 30/06/1949 ‘— my dear Watson’ Altair Grid is Times-style.
1006 07/07/1949 Honeycomb IV Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically.
1007 14/07/1949 Personagram A.E.S. Grid is Times-style; lights, all names of personalities, are entered letter by letter.
1008 21/07/1949 Dog Days Babs Narrative in (distinctly doggy) Latin, comprising two witness statements.
1009 28/07/1949 Holiday Fare Altair Grid is Times-style.
1010 04/08/1949 Hyperbolic Tyke Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of x¦ - ay¦ = 16 - a = ¦b¦ for a < 21.
1011 11/08/1949 Double Demon Falambuco There are two identical 12 x 6 grids; clues for corresponding lights are run together (some lights being meaningless jumbles).
1012 18/08/1949 Three-Dimensional Tiber Grid is a 4 x 4 x 4 cube with lights in all three directions; edge lights are clued first, with remaining clues in random order.
1013 25/08/1949 Holiday Task Altair Grid is Times-style.
1014 01/09/1949 Disenvowelled Zander Only the vowels of each answer are entered; A, E, I, O, U and Y each appear 24 times in the grid.
1015 08/09/1949 Circular Div Grid is circular with radial lights all 5-letter; all circles also comprise words.
1016 15/09/1949 Another Mixed Bag Nimrod Normal.
1017 22/09/1949 Word Ladder IV Tracer Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
1018 29/09/1949 Mixed Company Altair Grid is Times-style.
1019 06/10/1949 All Change Timoneto All across lights are entered encoded, the code for each light being such that A would become the final letter of the previous answer.
1020 13/10/1949 Chess Moves Pipeg Across lights are normal; the remainder are entered along knight's, bishop's or castle's moves.
1021 20/10/1949 Roman Style Babs Answers are entered in Roman numerals, e.g. WEASEL leads to XXIIIVIXIXVXII.
1022 27/10/1949 Why of Course! Altair Grid is Times-style.
1023 03/11/1949 Higher Powers W. McNaught Numerical puzzle concerning primes raised to prime powers modulo primes (all primes being 2-digit).
1024 10/11/1949 Knight’s Move — IX Cocos 26 lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are entered along knight's moves from isolated areas.
1025 17/11/1949 Theme VII Proton Across lights (3 of which are unclued) are characters from Dickens.
1026 24/11/1949 For a Wet Day Altair Grid is Times-style.
1027 01/12/1949 Acrosticross Aries The central 6 x 5 rectangle, almost isolated from the remainder of the grid, forms a double acrostic.
1028 08/12/1949 Word Squares IV Tracer Grid comprises 4 word-squares; the central two rows form 10-letter words. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
1029 15/12/1949 Alphabetical Jigsaw Tyke All lights have their letters in alphabetical order. Clues are grouped by light length; 2- and 3-letter lights are unclued, as is BILLOWY.
1030 22/12/1949 Literary Pets Hermes Lights are animals in literature or pets of authors.
1031 29/12/1949 One Good Wish Altair Grid is Times-style.
1032 05/01/1950 Eye-Rhymes Babs Each clue, apart from two superfluous words, leads to an answer whose first part is the light; one of the words confirms the light, while the other is an eye-rhyme of the answer, ending with the letters which must be removed to form the light.
1033 12/01/1950 Misprints Stephanus Each light is entered misprinted, and its clue has a similar misprint; there are no unchecked letters.
1034 19/01/1950 Trisected Triangles Trand Numerical puzzle concerning various triangles with one side trisected.
1035 26/01/1950 All My Eye Altair Grid is Times-style.
1036 02/02/1950 Peculiar Proverbs Wol Each set of four symmetrically-placed lights has one clue defining all four in random order.
1037 09/02/1950 Poetic Circles Pipeg Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1038 16/02/1950 Jumble Pie Falambuco Normal.
1039 23/02/1950 Pretty Poll Altair Grid is Times-style; some lights refer to the election.
1040 02/03/1950 Disenvowelled II Zander Only the vowels of each answer are entered; A, E, I, O, U and Y each appear 24 times in the grid.
1041 09/03/1950 Ten-Mile Radius Tiber 1 Across is BUCKFASTLEIGH; remaining across lights (all 13-letter) are anagrams of pairs of towns about ten miles apart, clued by the county in which they lie.
1042 16/03/1950 Marigold Aesthete Grid is circular; two circles contain 'IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS, WITH A HEY, AND A HO, AND A HEY NONINO' and 'WE THE GLOBE CAN COMPASS SOON'.
1043 23/03/1950 Latin Castor Lights are entered in Latin.
1044 30/03/1950 Cum grano Altair Grid is Times-style.
1045 06/04/1950 Motley Mixture V Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in a paragraph and a 'poem'.
1046 13/04/1950 Circular II Div Grid is circular; radial lights are all 5-letter, entered jumbled; circumference reads 'NEVER ASCRIBE TO AN OPPONENT MOTIVES MEANER THAN YOUR OWN' by BARRIE (fourth circle).
1047 20/04/1950 Space Saver Babs Each answer is entered in half as many squares as the word has letters, e.g. POMPOM leads to P O M, KNICK-KNACK leads to K N I/A C K.
1048 27/04/1950 Free and Easy Altair Grid is Times-style.
1049 04/05/1950 Queen’s Moves Octavian Numerical puzzle in base 8; lights are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
1050 11/05/1950 Trunk-Call Aries 7-letter lights are clued by 'telephone numbers', using the keyword GLADSTONE, with numbers referring to positions in the keyword, e.g. PLI3657 becomes PLIATSO which leads to APOSTIL.
1051 18/05/1950 Squares and Triangles Numps Numerical puzzle, with grid a triangle plus a square; clues involve the first six solutions of + m(m + 1) = N = n¦.
1052 25/05/1950 ‘Small Latin …’ Altair Grid is Times-style.
1053 01/06/1950 Seven Poems in Search of their Authors Babs 7 poems and their authors are unclued.
1054 08/06/1950 ‘Double or Quit’ Pipeg 9 clues lead to pairs of 4-letter words, of which the second is the Playfair-coded version of the first; the codesquare appears in the grid. KEY: Transfixed
1055 15/06/1950 Personalia Aesthete Lights are 2- or 3-word anagrams of personalities.
1056 22/06/1950 Honeycomb V Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically.
1057 29/06/1950 By and Large Altair Grid is Times-style.
1058 06/07/1950 Alphabetic II Stephanus 26 unclued lights, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, are KINDS OF BOATS and SHIPs.
1059 13/07/1950 Circular III Div Grid is circular; radial lights are all 5-letter, entered jumbled; circumference reads 'THE FIRST IS THE TASTE WHICH IS MEAGRE AND HOLLOW BUT CRISP' by LEWIS CARROLL (third circle).
1060 20/07/1950 Schizologia Tyke Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1061 27/07/1950 Holiday Fare Altair Grid is Times-style.
1062 03/08/1950 Centenary III Lingo Clues are quotations from DAVID COPPERFIELD by CHARLES DICKENS (first published in book form in 1850).
1063 10/08/1950 Twos and Threes Falambuco Lights are clued in rows or columns.
1064 17/08/1950 Equation Square Fez Grid is a 5 x 5 word-square; clues are to sums of letter-values and are given in terms of the symmetric functions of the roots of the cubic equation x¦ + x + 7 = 0.
1065 24/08/1950 Old Boys’ Match Zander Down clues are DLM; across lights (unclued) form two opposing football teams, all Old Testament characters.
1066 31/08/1950 And all that Altair Grid is Times-style; some lights refer to 1066.
1067 14/09/1950 The Dream Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters APS in some order, and are omitted from a poem.
1068 21/09/1950 Word-Squares V Tracer Grid comprises 9 word-squares, each of whose main NE-SW diagonals contains just the letter E repeated; clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares. The first words of the 4-letter word squares are BATE, HATE, PATE and TATE; those of the 5-letter
1069 28/09/1950 Plain Sailing Altair Grid is Times-style.
1070 02/11/1950 Acrosticross II Aries The central 6 x 5 rectangle, almost isolated from the remainder of the grid, forms a double acrostic.
1071 09/11/1950 Deflationary Spiral Wray Grid is a spiral, each word being an anagram of the previous one with one letter removed; 8 positioning lights are clued.
1072 16/11/1950 Last Lines Pipeg Several clues are last lines of stanzas or poems; the lights are the authors. If authors are given, lights are words in the corresponding first lines.
1073 23/11/1950 Endless Chain Babs 25 clues lead to words whose first parts are entered where stated, the remainders as first parts elsewhere.
1074 30/11/1950 Autumn Fancies Altair Grid is Times-style.
1075 07/12/1950 Motley Mixture VI Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two paragraphs.
1076 14/12/1950 Discard Square Fez 16 answers lose a letter on entry, the lights still being words; the omitted letters form a 4 x 4 word-square with main diagonal also a word.
1077 21/12/1950 A Square Deal Tyke Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of x¦ + 2y¦ = z¦.
1078 28/12/1950 Ring in the New Altair Grid is Times-style; some lights refer to the New Year.
1079 04/01/1951 Compendious Stephanus Narrative, with various lights containing certain symbols, entered appropriately, e.g. PLUSFOURS leads to +4S, JEWS' HARP leads to JEW#.
1080 11/01/1951 Zoological Cyphers Vectis Grid is Times-style; clues are encoded by replacing A by Z, B by Y etc.; lights are all animals, birds, fish, insects or reptiles.
1081 18/01/1951 Three Dimensional II Tiber Grid is a 3 x 4 x 5 cuboid with lights in all three directions; edge lights are clued first, with remaining clues in random order.
1082 25/01/1951 Mixed Grill Altair Grid is Times-style.
1083 01/02/1951 Proverbial Triglot Hardi Across lights and unchecked letters can be arranged to form proverbs in English, French and German.
1084 08/02/1951 Wheels Within Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'BUT CUSTOM MAKES BLIND AND OBDURATE THE LOFTIEST HEARTS' by PERCY SHELLEY (third circle).
1085 15/02/1951 Olympic Games Zander Down clues are DLM; across lights (unclued) form two opposing football teams, all characters from classical mythology.
1086 22/02/1951 Ambages Altair Grid is Times-style.
1087 01/03/1951 Schizologia II Tyke Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1088 08/03/1951 Cyclic-Hexagons Jim Grid is hexagonal, made up of equilateral triangles; lights are all 6-letter, entered around numbers.
1089 15/03/1951 SSTRS(IE) Babs Narrative concerning three sisters; only consonants are entered.
1090 22/03/1951 Poetic Circles — II Pipeg Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1091 29/03/1951 Patchwork Altair Grid is Times-style.
1092 05/04/1951 About It and About Bart 26 lights spiral outwards from the centre, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet; there are 26 positioning lights.
1093 12/04/1951 Triangular Jigsaw Wray Grid comprises 13 equilateral triangles; in each is entered a 6-letter word, with pairs of letters on adjacent sides equal.
1094 19/04/1951 Word Ladder V Tracer Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
1095 26/04/1951 ‘The Net Spread’ Altair Grid is Times-style.
1096 03/05/1951 Dome of Discovery Jee Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to x¦ + y¦ + z¦ = 99¦.
1097 10/05/1951 A Djintec Puzzle translated Vectis Grid is Times-style; clues define the lights or antonyms thereof; lights are entered either forwards or backwards.
1098 17/05/1951 Neo-Classical Twost Across lights are all names of Derby winners.
1099 24/05/1951 B. Trothed and Marie Tal Jabberwock 15 pairs of answers, when given affixes, sound like couples as in the title.
1100 31/05/1951 For June Days Altair Grid is Times-style.
1101 07/06/1951 Spiral Chequers Fez There are 17 positioning lights; remaining lights are entered in a spiral in alternate squares.
1102 14/06/1951 Symbolical Babs Narrative, with various lights containing certain symbols, entered appropriately, e.g. COLONNADE leads to :NADE, CARETAKER leads to ^AKER.
1103 21/06/1951 Shakespeare Unbound Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'ALL ... GIVE TO DUST THAT IS A LITTLE GILT MORE LAUD THAN GILT O'ERDUSTED'.
1104 28/06/1951 ‘22 58’ Tiber Unclued lights are SEA AREAS.
1105 05/07/1951 Statecraft Bart Across lights are jumbles of pairs of American states.
1106 12/07/1951 Honeycomb VI Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically.
1107 19/07/1951 Equations Trand Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to such equations as a¦ + b¦ = c¦ + d¦.
1108 26/07/1951 Do It By Numbers Pipeg Only the letters A, B, ..., I of the answers form the lights, entered as their numerical equivalents, e.g. AGREEABLY leads to 175512.
1109 02/08/1951 Proverbial Tetraglot Hardi Across lights and unchecked letters can be arranged to form the same proverb in English, French, German and Spanish.
1110 09/08/1951 Cook’s Tour Zander 19 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1111 16/08/1951 On the Roundabouts Bod Clues are in pairs; the first part of one answer is transferred to the start of the other to form two new words, e.g. ELOPE, ENVIRONS lead to ENVELOPE, IRONS.
1112 23/08/1951 Mainly Musical Wray Grid is triangular with 6-letter lights entered in triangles, with pairs of letters on adjacent sides equal; 12 lights are composers.
1113 30/08/1951 Fourges Fez A keyword, followed by the rest of the alphabet in order, is placed in columns numbered from 1 to 9; each letter in the lights is entered as the number of its column. KEY: Frugality
1114 06/09/1951 Northern Lights Log Narrative concerning a sea-voyage; all letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down.
1115 13/09/1951 Alphabetical Jigsaw II Tyke All lights have their letters in reverse alphabetical order. Clues are grouped by light length; 2- and 3-letter lights are unclued.
1116 20/09/1951 Arabic Style Babs Lights are omitted from 6 limericks, and are entered numerically, with one digit per square, e.g. APPAREL leads to 11616118512.
1117 27/09/1951 Nos Moutons Altair Grid is Times-style.
1118 04/10/1951 One or Two Stephanus Each square contains one or two letters.
1119 11/10/1951 Word-Squares VI Tracer Grid comprises 9 word-squares each of whose NE-SW diagonals contains just one letter repeated; these in order (except for the main diagonal) spell ENIGMA. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
1120 18/10/1951 Salt on their Tails Octavian Numerical puzzle.
1121 25/10/1951 Imp of Mischief Pipeg Some clues are PD; some are quotations in which the light has been replaced by another word.
1122 01/11/1951 Ant-Hill Topher 38 answers lose ANT on entry.
1123 08/11/1951 Quotagrams Zander Asterisked clues are anagrams of quotations; lights are significant words from the correct versions.
1124 15/11/1951 The Quadrangle Vectis Odd-numbered lights are entered in any direction in alternate squares; even-numbered lights are entered diagonally and 'rebound' at the edges of the grid.
1125 22/11/1951 Noah’s Ark Ad Grid is circular, with radial lights entered inwards and running from the innermost circle back to the outermost where necessary. Clues are PD, leading to names of animals and birds together with PARKS.
1126 29/11/1951 The Following Have Arrived Babs Lights (all 9-letter) are names of fictitious race-horses; sire and dam are given, and letter-mixtures occur in racing tips.
1127 06/12/1951 Motley Mixture VII Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two paragraphs.
1128 13/12/1951 Hexa-Pentagonal Croton Grid comprises two overlapping hexagonal lattices such that each hexagon is divided into 4 pentagons, and contains a 4-letter word read clockwise; four 8-letter words are formed along the edges.
1129 20/12/1951 KN = Pepper Twost 16 unclued lights are synonyms of words sounding like one, two or three letters (as in the title).
1130 27/12/1951 Anno Domini Altair Grid is Times-style.
1131 03/01/1952 Poetic Circles III Pipeg Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1132 10/01/1952 Closed Circuits Wray Lights are 5-letter, entered clockwise around numbers so that first and last letters (which are the same) occupy the same cell; clues are in random order within rows.
1133 17/01/1952 Spiral Chequers II Fez There are 17 positioning lights; remaining lights are entered in a spiral in alternate squares.
1134 24/01/1952 Uneven Scales W. McNaught Numerical puzzle with solutions to clues correct in base 9 and base 11.
1135 31/01/1952 Ordinary Strathmacore Grid is Times-style.
1136 07/02/1952 About It and About II Bart 26 lights spiral outwards from the centre, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet; there are 26 positioning lights.
1137 14/02/1952 Pasty Jim Narrative concerning a holiday in Cornwall.
1138 21/02/1952 Wheels Within — II Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'I HAD BEEN CONTENT TO PERISH FALLING ON THE FOEMAN'S GROUND' by LORD TENNYSON (third circle).
1139 28/02/1952 Misprints — II Stephanus Each light is entered misprinted, and its clue has a similar misprint; there are no unchecked letters.
1140 06/03/1952 Missing Links Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1141 13/03/1952 Homonymous Topher 38 lights are homonyms of the answers to the clues.
1142 20/03/1952 Puzzle Lock Tiber Puzzle concerning a lock having 7 rings, each containing 9 letters; together they form 'HI LOCKED, LETTERED, BRAW BRASS COLLAR SHOWED HIM THE GENTLEMAN AND SCHOLAR'.
1143 27/03/1952 A Mixed Bag Altair Grid is Times-style.
1144 03/04/1952 Schizologia — III Tyke Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1145 10/04/1952 Playfair Pipeg 8 lights are Playfair-coded. KEY: Hexagynous
1146 17/04/1952 Word-ladder — VI Tracer Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
1147 24/04/1952 Once Removed Babs Each clue leads to a word associated with the light.
1148 01/05/1952 Both Worlds (1148 = ARD) Abdul Across clues are mathematical; lights are in base 26. Most down lights are jumbled.
1149 08/05/1952 Punnish Stephanus Each clue defines the light and two words which together form a homonym of it.
1150 15/05/1952 Quotagrams — II Zander Asterisked clues are anagrams of quotations; lights are significant words from the correct versions.
1151 22/05/1952 Eh? Bee. See? Scorpio Lights are entered as letters and numbers sounding correct, e.g. EXTENUATE leads to X 10 U 8, EFFENDI leads to F N D.
1152 29/05/1952 The Following Have Arrived — II Babs Lights (all 11-letter) are names of fictitious race-horses; sire and dam are given, and letter-mixtures occur in racing tips.
1153 05/06/1952 A)nagram(s Selce Clues define words of which the lights are anagrams with first and last letters removed.
1154 12/06/1952 Shakespeare Unbound — II Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'MANHOOD IS CALLED FOOLERY WHEN IT STANDS AGAINST A FALLING FABRIC'.
1155 19/06/1952 Northern Lights — II Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. 12 unclued lights are signs of the zodiac; others are GREAT BEAR, BIG DIPPER, URSA MAJOR, WAIN.
1156 26/06/1952 Line upon Line Altair Grid is Times-style.
1157 03/07/1952 Discard Square — II Fez 16 answers lose one or two (consecutive) letters on entry, the lights still being words; the omitted letters form a 5 x 5 word-square with main diagonal also a word.
1158 10/07/1952 Honeycomb — VII Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically.
1159 17/07/1952 Last Lines — II Pipeg Several clues are last lines of stanzas or poems; the lights are the authors. If authors are given, lights are words in the corresponding first lines.
1160 24/07/1952 Trisected Angles Trand Numerical puzzle concerning a triangle with a trisected angle.
1161 31/07/1952 Idle Thoughts Vectis Most clues are nonsense couplets containing anagrams of Shakespearean characters.
1162 07/08/1952 Numerc Ecson Occid All lights lose numbers (in English, French, German or Latin, including Roman numerals) on entry.
1163 14/08/1952 14A Through the 12D Sansine Narrative concerning ALICE, with all lights losing any Ps or Qs and having any double letters entered singly.
1164 21/08/1952 Snakes and Ladders Twig Grid is a word-ladder; 6 diagonal lights are clued as snakes.
1165 28/08/1952 40-17 Wray Unclued lights are places in Switzerland.
1166 04/09/1952 * * * * * * * Pone Across lights are entered BOUSTROPHEDON, down lights UPSIDE-DOWN.
1167 11/09/1952 Over The Styx Babs Narrative concerning famous horses and their owners; only consonants of lights are entered.
1168 18/09/1952 Bridge Pipeg Grid represents the distribution of cards in a bridge hand; a narrative of play is given with certain words omitted, whose letter sums equal the sums of pip values of certain cards (J = 14, Q = 16, K = 18, A = 20).
1169 25/09/1952 Rag-bag Altair Grid is Times-style.
1170 02/10/1952 All Change Topher Lights are misprints of answers, and are still words.
1171 09/10/1952 Word-Squares — VII Tracer Grid comprises 9 word-squares each of whose NE-SW diagonals contains just one letter repeated; these in order (except for the main diagonal) spell CLEVEREST. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
1172 16/10/1952 Alphabetical Inserts Sam The alphabet is entered in two columns so that each across light contains one of these letters; the 3- and 4-letter words appearing on either side of these columns are clued by subtraction, e.g. ARDENT - ART = DEN.
1173 23/10/1952 Neo-Pythagorean Croton Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to a¦ + b¦ = 2c¦.
1174 30/10/1952 Outdoor Ariels Egma Unclued lights are types of antelope.
1175 06/11/1952 Nominal Rekab Some clues are first names of English writers; the lights are their second Christian names.
1176 13/11/1952 Much of a Muchness Topher Unclued lights are sets of mutual anagrams.
1177 20/11/1952 Across, Down, and Through Hereward Wyke Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube with block cubes; clues are the letters of the lights in alphabetical order with four extra letters added.
1178 27/11/1952 Farrago Altair Grid is Times-style.
1179 04/12/1952 Motley Mixture — VIII Tracer Lights appear as letter-mixtures in order in two paragraphs.
1180 11/12/1952 Swallowtails Sprog 12 extracts from quotations (given) form a spiral, with 3-letter overlaps; parts of the quotations appear as positioning lights.
1181 18/12/1952 Plum Pudding Bart Clues are DLM; unclued lights are coins.
1182 25/12/1952 The Festive Board Div Lights are entered letter by letter; the grid forms 'HOW BLESS'D, HOW ENVIED, WERE OUR LIFE COULD WE BUT SCAPE THE POULTERER'S KNIFE! BUT MAN, CURS'D MAN, ON TURKEYS PREYS, AND CHRISTMAS SHORTENS ALL OUR DAYS: SOMETIMES WITH OYSTERS WE COMBINE, SOMETIMES
1183 01/01/1953 Mixed Veg Ad In each row and column lights can run on from the last square to the first; clues are PD, leading to vegetable items.
1184 08/01/1953 Double or Quit — II Pipeg 12 clues lead to pairs of 4-letter words, of which the second is the Playfair-coded version of the first; the codesquare appears in the grid. KEY: Superdainty
1185 15/01/1953 Pros and Cons Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1186 22/01/1953 Skeleton Crossnumber Phydros Numerical puzzle with blank grid.
1187 29/01/1953 Elysian Kennel Club Babs Narrative concerning several famous dogs; consonants only are entered, vowels are given.
1188 05/02/1953 Idle Thoughts Again Vectis Clues are couplets containing anagrams of fictional characters (starred clues also contain a word of the title concerned); these are entered with overlaps in chains.
1189 12/02/1953 Wheels Within — III Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle and third circle spell 'HE LEFT HIS SUBJECTS STILL BEHIND, ONE HALF AS MAD - AND T'OTHER NO LESS BLIND', referring to GEORGE THE THIRD (appearing,
1190 19/02/1953 Alphabetical Jigsaw — III Tyke All lights have their first halves in alphabetical order and their second halves in reverse alphabetical order; those of even length have the two central letters the same. Clues are grouped by light length; 3-letter words are unclued.
1191 26/02/1953 Cook’s Tour — II Zander 19 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1192 05/03/1953 The Brigand of Split Rex Grid has only vertical bars. Each across light and a homonym thereof are defined in a narrative; some down lights are clued in column order.
1193 12/03/1953 Caesarean VLX [Jim] Thirteen 2-letter lights give the pairs of a substitution cipher (consisting of the codewords above the rest of the alphabet in order); answers to two of the ten coded clues are entered encoded. KEY: Facetious Jymp
1194 19/03/1953 Here and There Fudge Asterisked clues lead to words associated with the lights by phrases '_____ AND _____'.
1195 26/03/1953 Pastime Altair Grid is Times-style.
1196 02/04/1953 Just So Pone Narrative concerning 'How the Rhinoceros got his Skin' in Kipling's 'Just So Stories'.
1197 09/04/1953 Limited Objectives Wray Only 10 different letters appear in the grid; other letters are removed from answers to clues and the light is an anagram of the remainder. 3 unclued lights require no removal or rearrangement, and each contains all 10 letters (with repetitions).
1198 16/04/1953 Word Ladder VII Tracer Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
1199 23/04/1953 Ragman Selce Clues define words of which the lights are anagrams with first and last letters removed.
1200 30/04/1953 Plonk-Plunk Stephanus Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of ax¦ = by¦ + 1.
1201 07/05/1953 Portmanteaux Topher Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order.
1202 14/05/1953 Singles and Doubles Turk Certain squares have 2 letters entered in them.
1203 21/05/1953 E-Changes Sam Answers to the 26 across clues each contain at least one letter E; one such is replaced by another letter (the new letters being the alphabet in order) and an anagram of what results is the light.
1204 28/05/1953 Coronation Chaplet Pipeg Grid is circular; radial clues define words from which shorter words are to be removed, leaving 4-letter lights. A spiral reads 'MAY YOU RULE US LONG AND LEAVE US RULERS OF YOUR BLOOD AS NOBLE TILL THE LATEST DAY' from 'TO THE QUEEN' by TENNYSON (jumbled
1205 04/06/1953 Snakes and Ladders Ad Ladder lights are entered upwards either vertically or diagonally; snake lights traverse squares in any direction except upwards.
1206 11/06/1953 Northern Lights III Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. 10 lights are homonyms of words in Gray's Elegy; in each case a second word from the same line is
1207 18/06/1953 Verbal Quiz Div The numerical sum of each light is given as its clue; the unchecked letters form the title. Each diagonal contains CONSEQUENCE, the only 11-letter word spoken by Reynaldo in Hamlet.
1208 25/06/1953 Medley Altair Grid is Times-style.
1209 02/07/1953 Perfectly Plain Fez Grid is blank; clues are numbered normally.
1210 09/07/1953 Skeletons in the Cupboard Taffy Clues each define two words; lights are the 3 letters common to both. Grid spells 'A HEDGE BETWEEN KEEPS FRIENDSHIP GREEN' and 'ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER'.
1211 16/07/1953 Honeycomb VIII Tracer Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered in three directions, jumbled apart from those entered vertically.
1212 23/07/1953 Square Routes Jayphanx Numerical puzzle; lights are entered in 5 square chains and consist of numbers followed by their square roots with 1-digit overlaps.
1213 30/07/1953 Shakespeare Unbound — III Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'WHAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED 'TWERE CHILDISH WEAKNESS TO LAMENT OR FEAR'.
1214 06/08/1953 Hexagrammatos Duplex Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON: SONG AGAINST GROCERS: 'GOD MADE THE WICKED GROCER FOR A MYSTERY AND A SIGN, THAT MEN MIGHT SHUN THE AWFUL SHOP AND GO TO INNS TO DINE'.
1215 13/08/1953 Missing Links — II Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1216 20/08/1953 Schizologia — IV Tyke Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1217 27/08/1953 Lexicotheria Notlaw 26 lights, mainly in two chains, are animals beginning with different letters of the alphabet; several positioning lights are clued.
1218 03/09/1953 Threesomes Babs 30 italicised clues lead to 10 groups of three words each; in each group the same initial three letters are removed to form the lights (also words).
1219 10/09/1953 Magic Square Tiber Numerical puzzle; grid is a 6 x 6 magic square with one square in each row already filled. For each row the other five numbers are clued in random order.
1220 17/09/1953 Simple Cypher Recon Answers to asterisked clues are encoded using a simple substitution cipher.
1221 24/09/1953 Penny Plain Altair Grid is Times-style.
1222 01/10/1953 Aslant Pone Narrative concerning Gulliver's Travels; lights are entered diagonally, some making a change of direction.
1223 08/10/1953 Form Fours Chalba Each clue leads to a 4-letter word, to be entered clockwise in four squares obtained one from the other by successive rotation of the grid; rows spell a series of animals and birds.
1224 15/10/1953 Word-Squares — VIII Tracer Grid comprises 9 word-squares each of whose NE-SW diagonals contains just one letter repeated; these in order (except for the main diagonal) spell PRECEDENT. Clues give numerical sums of the words of the squares.
1225 22/10/1953 Extra-Pythagorean Croton Numerical puzzle concerning solutions of x¦ + 2y¦ = 3z¦.
1226 29/10/1953 Displaced Persons Peto Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
1227 05/11/1953 Noughts and Crosses Ad Lights are all 10-letter, with DLM clues; odd- and even-numbered letters are entered as X and O respectively.
1228 12/11/1953 Replacements Stephanus Each clue defines three words, with one to be replaced in another by the third to form the light, e.g. AKIN, CAKING, LO lead to CLOG.
1229 19/11/1953 Synograms Umber Grid is circular with radial lights, clued by anagrams of synonyms.
1230 26/11/1953 Imp of Mischief — II Pipeg Clues are PD.
1231 03/12/1953 Mathematics Vectis Grid is Times-style and uses only 10 different letters; clues are cryptograms employing them in 6 'valuations', each being used once in each type of problem (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
1232 10/12/1953 Alphabetical Inserts — II Sam The alphabet is entered in two columns so that each across light contains one of these letters; the 3- and 4-letter words appearing on either side of these columns are clued by subtraction, e.g. GRANULES - GULES = RAN.
1233 17/12/1953 Split Turns Wray Grid is triangular; clues lead to 6-letter words, whose halves (perhaps jumbled) are entered as 3-letter words clockwise in appropriate triangles, with letters on adjacent sides equal.
1234 24/12/1953 Christmas Crackers Joxon Clues concern Christmas.
1235 31/12/1953 A Fresh Start Altair Grid is Times-style.
1236 07/01/1954 Multiplication Square Fez Grid is a 5 x 5 word-square; clues are to sums of letter-values and are given in code; a cryptogram provides the key.
1237 14/01/1954 Dear Sir, … Babs Narrative comprising several 'letters' concerning the first issue of The Listener.
1238 21/01/1954 Cyclic Fours Topher Each row contains three 4-letter words, written cyclically, clued in random sequence as letter-mixtures with redundant letters.
1239 28/01/1954 Quaternary — II Occid Clues are anagrams of synonyms of anagrams of the lights.
1240 04/02/1954 Head-hunting Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'IT IS NO MATTER WHICH WAY THE HEAD LIES'.
1241 11/02/1954 Wheels Within — IV Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells ''TWAS PART CONFESSION AND THE REST DEFENCE A MADMAN'S TALE' by GEORGE CRABBE (third circle).
1242 18/02/1954 Kings and Castles Knight-errant Puzzle concerns the white squares of a 12 x 12 chessboard; lights are entered along successive moves of kings or rooks.
1243 25/02/1954 Dead Letters Scorpio Each light loses its initial letter on entry; these exhaust the alphabet twice.
1244 04/03/1954 Sans Teeth Sansine Lights lose the letter E, H and T on entry.
1245 11/03/1954 Whereabouts Rekab 12 lights are clued by anagrams given in random order; 5 clues are one-word anagrams of the lights.
1246 18/03/1954 Double Check — II Neon Each clue defines the light and leads to two anagrams or pseudo-anagrams of it.
1247 25/03/1954 For a Rainy Day Altair Grid is Times-style.
1248 01/04/1954 Ellipses Pipeg Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to 2a¦ - z¦ = A¦, 2b¦ + z¦ = B¦.
1249 08/04/1954 Twins Tyke There are two identical grids; each clue leads to two answers, one for each grid.
1250 15/04/1954 Fold Here Pone A diamond path, beginning at the centre of the top row, spells THIS IS THE WAY THEY DID NOT GO; a spiral route reads THIS IS OK: GO ON INWARDS: TEN COTSWOLDS (being the flock which BO-PEEP LOST).
1251 22/04/1954 Hexa-Pentagonal — II Croton Grid comprises two overlapping hexagonal lattices such that each hexagon is divided into 4 pentagons, and contains a 4-letter word read clockwise; four 10-letter words are formed along the edges.
1252 29/04/1954 Quotimals Trand Numerical puzzle; lights are repetends of periodic fractions in bases other than 10.
1253 06/05/1954 Arma Virumque Cano Zander Lights are entered in Latin; clues are incomplete quotations from Virgil.
1254 13/05/1954 The Blues Wray Unclued lights are OXFORD or CAMBRIDGE colleges.
1255 20/05/1954 It All Depends Vectis Grid is Times-style; the light is an antonym of the answer, the answer itself, a synonym of the answer or an anagram of the answer according as the light's initial letter is in the range A-D, E-I, J-P or R-Z.
1256 27/05/1954 Pure Devilry — III Ad In each row and column lights can run on from the last square to the first; clues are PD.
1257 03/06/1954 Fragments Babs Narrative concerning a parody of 'Oh, to be in England'.
1258 10/06/1954 Spiral Chequers — III Fez There are 20 positioning lights; remaining lights are entered in a spiral in alternate squares.
1259 17/06/1954 Pros and Cons — II Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1260 24/06/1954 Snatches of Song Altair Grid is Times-style.
1261 01/07/1954 Shakespeare Unbound — IV Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'FOOLISH YOUTH THOU SEEKST THE GREATNESS THAT WILL OVERWHELM THEE'.
1262 08/07/1954 For Bidding? Egma Grid comprises a bridge hand; cards are given letter values such that AS, ..., 2S, AC, ..., 2C and AH, ..., 2H, AD, ..., 2D are in alphabetical order. Clues are given to some of the words or abbreviations formed by each player's holding in each suit.
1263 15/07/1954 Misprints — III Stephanus Each light is entered misprinted, and its clue has a similar misprint; there are no unchecked letters.
1264 22/07/1954 Mixed Couplets Pipeg Some clues are two lines of verse by different authors with three or more consecutive letters in common, forming the light, e.g. CAMPION, CAMPBELL lead to CAMP.
1265 29/07/1954 Purely Nominal — II Joxon Many lights and references in clues are to be found in The Century Cyclopaedia of Names.
1266 05/08/1954 Cubes Notlaw Numerical puzzle involving several cubes and 3-digit numbers 'abc' equal to a¦ + b¦ + c¦.
1267 12/08/1954 Tricode Recon Lights are entered in four directions; in three cases a different simple substitution cipher is used.
1268 19/08/1954 Alphabetical Inserts — III Sam Grid is circular, with 22 radial lights; 26 circular lights each gain a different letter on entry.
1269 26/08/1954 euplcaton ancy [ffancy] All repeated letters in clues and lights are omitted.
1270 02/09/1954 1 + 11 + 39 + 6 Halezfax Unclued lights apart from the title are either DEPARTMENTs or former PROVINCEs.
1271 09/09/1954 Bright and Early Pone Narrative concerning bird-watching.
1272 16/09/1954 Hexagrammatos — II Duplex Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads WILLIAM SCHWENK GILBERT: 'BUT THE HAPPIEST HOUR A SAILOR SEES IS WHEN HE'S DOWN AT AN INLAND TOWN, WITH HIS NANCY ON HIS KNEES, YO HO! AND HIS ARM AROUND HER WAIST!'
1273 23/09/1954 Missing Links — III Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1274 30/09/1954 Conventional Altair Grid is Times-style.
1275 07/10/1954 Poetic Circles — IV Pipeg Grid is circular; 4 quotations run circumferentially, with the poets forming four of the radial lights; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1276 14/10/1954 ‘Ars est celare artem’ Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters ART in some order.
1277 21/10/1954 Problems Trand Numerical puzzle concerning three types of problem.
1278 28/10/1954 28ac. Notlaw Unclued lights are the names of the ten cups of coffee drunk after dinner in the ARDENNES.
1279 04/11/1954 Unknown Quantity ffancy The position of each light is not given, but the sum of its letter-values, added to the number of its position in the grid, plus or minus 10 for across or down lights respectively, appears in brackets.
1280 11/11/1954 Pierian Hereward Wyke Grid comprises 14 heptagons, divided into triangles, containing 7-letter words entered clockwise. At 8 points three heptagons meet, and 6-letter words are entered in the resulting hexagons. The perimeter spells 'A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING'.
1281 18/11/1954 Schizologia — V Tyke Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1282 25/11/1954 Mulberry Bush Topher Each light is a cyclic permutation of the answer.
1283 02/12/1954 Wheels Within — V Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'AND A FEW MEN TALKED OF FREEDOM WHILE ENGLAND TALKED OF ALE' by G.K. CHESTERTON (third circle).
1284 09/12/1954 Prime and Square Umber Numerical puzzle with clues given in terms of 4 prime numbers and 4 square numbers.
1285 16/12/1954 Head-hunting — II Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'WILL HIDE HIS HEAD UNDER HIS WING'.
1286 23/12/1954 Christmas Pie Babs Narrative comprising various poems about Christmas; perimeter spells 'AT CHRISTMAS PLAY AND MAKE GOOD CHEER FOR CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR'.
1287 30/12/1954 Split Turns — II Wray Grid is triangular; clues are quotations with 6-letter authors, whose halves (perhaps jumbled) are entered as 3-letter words clockwise in appropriate triangles, with letters on adjacent sides equal.
1288 06/01/1955 Hidden Mixtures Pipeg Most clues contain a themeword and a mixture of the letters of a word related to it; the light in each case is a third word related to the second by the first.
1289 13/01/1955 Word Sums — VI Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
1290 20/01/1955 Literary Relations Scorpio Clues are literary; some lights are anagrams of the answers.
1291 27/01/1955 Further Devilry — IV Ad All clues are PD.
1292 03/02/1955 Aviary Occid Across lights, all unclued, are birds.
1293 10/02/1955 Sumprod Jayphanx Numerical puzzle with 5 nested rectangles; numbers along two pairs of adjacent edges have their sum and product both perfect squares.
1294 17/02/1955 Exit Lines Adam Unclued lights are 6 Shavian characters, together with the words comprising their last lines.
1295 24/02/1955 Embedded Squares Fudge Grid comprises 36 squares, each surrounded by 4 hexagons. Lights are all 5-letter, with one letter entered in the square and the remainder clockwise in the hexagons so as to spell a 4-letter word anticlockwise. The letters in the squares form a 6 x 6 word
1296 03/03/1955 Pros and Cons — III Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1297 10/03/1955 Playfair II Pipeg 5 lights are Playfair-coded. KEY: Exultancy
1298 17/03/1955 Hour-glass Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'LIVES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US WE CAN MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME, AND, DEPARTING, LEAVE BEHIND US FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME'.
1299 24/03/1955 Twins — II Tyke There are two identical grids; each clue leads to two answers, one for each grid.
1300 31/03/1955 Alphabetical Cocktail Sam The 26 across lights are anagrams of the answers; each begins with a different letter of the alphabet.
1301 07/04/1955 Bird Song Babs Each of the 8 down clues contains an anagram of a 10-letter British bird, the light.
1302 14/04/1955 Third Degree Rampersand Numerical puzzle with grids forming a 3 x 3 x 3 cube.
1303 21/04/1955 Gardening &c Pone Clues and lights concern gardening; double border spells 'DAFFADOWNDILLIES AND COWSLIPS AND KINGCUPS AND LOVED LILIES THE PRETTY PAWNCE AND THE CHEVISAUNCE'.
1304 28/04/1955 A Plain Puzzle Altair Grid is Times-style.
1305 05/05/1955 Shakespeare Unbound — V Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'MEN OF SLENDER REPUTATION PUT FORTH THEIR SONS TO SEEK PREFERMENT'.
1306 12/05/1955 Knight’s Tour Gib Lights are 4-letter, mainly jumbled; a knight's tour spells 'CARELESS THEIR MERITS OR THEIR FAULTS TO SCAN, HIS PITY GAVE ERE CHARITY BEGAN'.
1307 19/05/1955 Imp of Mischief — III Pipeg All clues are PD.
1308 26/05/1955 Since 1900 Pirro Clues are incomplete quotations; one letter is to be chosen from each missing word and entered somewhere in the grid, which then spells 'WORRYING THE CARCASE OF AN OLD SONG' by R.S. THOMAS.
1309 02/06/1955 Cook’s Tour — III Zander 19 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1310 09/06/1955 Bisectors Trand Numerical puzzle concerning angle bisectors and medians of triangles.
1311 16/06/1955 Be(r)ef(t) C(l)ues Simmo One or two words in each clue have had one or two letters removed.
1312 23/06/1955 The Gamut Babs 13 unclued lights are composers, whose initial and final letters exhaust the alphabet.
1313 30/06/1955 Literanumeral Crank Any Roman numerals in lights are replaced by numbers in some way.
1314 07/07/1955 Chain Letters Tyke Each across light is the first 4 letters of a 7-letter word; these form a chain with 3-letter overlaps, alternate links of which are clued.
1315 14/07/1955 Logogriphs Topher Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and an anagram; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1316 21/07/1955 Queer Fish Wray Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers; 9, unclued, are fish.
1317 28/07/1955 Enough to Make One Cross Hereward Wyke Grid is twelve 3 x 3 squares (with hyphens indicating where adjacent squares contain the same letter); lights are clued in alphabetical order merely by the sums of their letter-values.
1318 04/08/1955 Mixed Bag Pipeg 10 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1319 11/08/1955 Sorry, Jim; You’re Out! Pim Unclued lights are misprints (single for across, double for down) of the 1954 MCC touring team in Australia; Jim McCannon is not included.
1320 18/08/1955 Swordsongs ffancy Several lights are formed from the answers in some way, e.g. HONOUR AMONG THIEVES leads to THHONOURIEVES, MERRY-GO-ROUND leads to GMERRYO. Some clues are similarly treated.
1321 25/08/1955 Endless Border Abdul Numerical puzzle, with border being the repetend of 1/29 in decimal notation.
1322 01/09/1955 Trios Fudge 26 clues are anagrams of two members of a trio, with the light being the third.
1323 08/09/1955 ‘Arms and the Man’ Zander Unclued lights are items listed in P. ROGET's Thesaurus under 'Arms'.
1324 15/09/1955 FisHY Jim 13 unclued lights have the form ___IS___, giving substitutions used sometimes in the clues.
1325 22/09/1955 Wheels Within — VI Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'WHO THEN TO FRAIL MORTALITY SHALL TRUST BUT LIMNS ON WATER' by FRANCIS BACON (third circle).
1326 29/09/1955 Science Fiction Simmo Across lights are cyclic permutations of planets or stars.
1327 06/10/1955 Composagram Halezfax Clues are DLM; unclued lights, occurring as anagrams in a diary extract, are all composers.
1328 13/10/1955 Queen’s Moves — II Octavian Numerical puzzle in base 8.
1329 20/10/1955 Nought but Crosses Vectis All lights are 5-letter, entered in 'crosses' in such a way that adjacent squares (except within crosses) contain letters adjacent in the alphabet.
1330 27/10/1955 Alphabetical Inserts — IV Sam The alphabet is entered in four columns so that each across light contains one of these letters; the 3- and 4-letter words appearing on either side of these columns are clued by subtraction, e.g. LUMBERED - UMBER = LED.
1331 03/11/1955 Group Terms Pipeg Asterisked clues are DLM, leading to nouns whose group terms form the lights, e.g. LIONS leads to PRIDE.
1332 10/11/1955 Homonymous — II Topher In 38 instances the light is a homonym of the answer.
1333 17/11/1955 Closed Circuits — II Wray Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise in triangles so that first and last letters (which are the same) occupy the same position; clues are in random order within four groups.
1334 24/11/1955 Adrift ffancy Narrative concerning a shipwreck; rows and columns of grid have been cyclically permuted.
1335 01/12/1955 Parallelograms Trand Numerical puzzle involving two parallelograms ABCD in which BD trisects the angle ABC.
1336 08/12/1955 Missing Links — IV Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1337 15/12/1955 Threes Out Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters RAG in some order.
1338 22/12/1955 Noel Joxon Clues concern Christmas.
1339 29/12/1955 Hexagrammatos — III Duplex Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON: THE ENGLISHMAN: 'BUT SINCE HE STOOD FOR ENGLAND AND KNEW WHAT ENGLAND MEANS, UNLESS YOU GIVE HIM BACON YOU MUST NOT GIVE HIM BEANS'.
1340 05/01/1956 Common Denominators Simmo 23 unnumbered definition clues have lights which are the people or places whose names are given to the objects, e.g. 'champagne' leads to SILLERY, 'blouse' leads to GARIBALDI.
1341 12/01/1956 Northern Lights — IV Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Unclued lights are types of TROPE.
1342 19/01/1956 Geograms Sam Across lights are anagrams of the answers and are geographical names in and around Britain.
1343 26/01/1956 Bicentennial Fecit Narrative concerning Mozart's life.
1344 02/02/1956 Change a Letter Pipeg Each clue contains a single misprint; exactly the same misprint is to be made in entering the light.
1345 09/02/1956 Queen’s Moves — III Octavian Numerical puzzle with blank grid and lights entered in base 5 along queen's moves; lights are complicated functions of given values of n.
1346 16/02/1956 Double Six Topher Six letters of the alphabet are subject to a 'constant substitution among themselves' for the down lights.
1347 22/03/1956 Sub Rosa Pone All lights lose TH once on entry.
1348 29/03/1956 Knight Errant Wray Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'POOR WANDERING ONE, THOUGH THOU HAST SURELY STYRAYED TAKE HEART' - SIR W.S. GILBERT.
1349 05/04/1956 Head-Hunting — III Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'ANOTHER BRUISING OF THE HAPLESS HEAD'.
1350 12/04/1956 Aeolian Babs 13 lights are names of winds occurring in a quotation from 'Paradise Lost'.
1351 19/04/1956 Quips and Quiddities Odysseus Across lights are members of alliterative pairs; the clues, in alphabetical order of the lights, define the other halves.
1352 26/04/1956 1 Across Speculator All lights are entered MIRRORWISE.
1353 03/05/1956 Embedded Squares — II Fudge Grid comprises 36 squares, each surrounded by 4 hexagons. Lights are all 5-letter, with one letter entered in the square and the remainder clockwise in the hexagons so as to spell a 4-letter word anticlockwise. The letters in the squares form a 6 x 6 word
1354 10/05/1956 Logs = 69,223 Notlaw Numerical puzzle; letters in clues stand for prime numbers, with lights the mantissae of the four-figure logs of the numbers clued.
1355 17/05/1956 Shakespeare Unbound — VI Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'BRIARS SHALL HAVE LEAVES AS WELL AS THORNS AND BE AS SWEET AS SHARP'.
1356 24/05/1956 Fair Exchange Leon Grid is circular and represents a telephone dial; letters represented by the same digit are taken to be equivalent. Twenty-five 4-letter radial lights read inward, spelling an oxymoron in two circles, forming 5 perfect squares in the third and contributin
1357 31/05/1956 Theme and Variations Zander Themewords are WHARTON (STEIN, LOOS); CHERRY (PLUM, DAMSON); NUGENT (DEMISS, GLADY); BULL (INNER, MAGPIE); SINGH (TRIPSIS, ERRHINE).
1358 07/06/1956 Hidden Mixtures — II Pipeg Most clues contain a themeword and a mixture of the letters of a word related to it; the light in each case is a third word related to the second by the first.
1359 14/06/1956 Pros and Cons — IV Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1360 21/06/1956 ‘There is no secret …’ Meringue Unclued across and down lights are the names of riders and their horses respectively.
1361 28/06/1956 Flora Seadog Unclued lights are found in Brewer's under 'Flowers and Trees'.
1362 05/07/1956 Portmanteaux — II Topher Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order.
1363 12/07/1956 Nonsense Rhymes Ramal Grid is Times-style; each clue is a nonsense rhyme of two lines, the first containing a definition of the light and the second an anagram of the symmetrically opposite light.
1364 19/07/1956 Entente Cordiale Jan Any light or portion thereof may be treated as a French word.
1365 26/07/1956 Motley Wray Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers; 9 are Shakespearean characters, clued by quotations from their speeches in random order.
1366 02/08/1956 Wheels Within — VII Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'ACT - ACT IN THE LIVING PRESENT! HEART WITHIN, AND GOD O'ERHEAD!' by H.W. LONGFELLOW (third circle).
1367 09/08/1956 Hour-glass — II Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'LOVE TOOK UP THE GLASS OF TIME, AND TURN'D IT IN HIS GLOWING HANDS; EVERY MOMENT, LIGHTLY SHAKEN, RAN ITSELF IN GOLDEN SANDS'.
1368 16/08/1956 Factorial Fractions Semantikos Numerical puzzle; clues are fractions, with lights being these in 'factorial notation', e.g. 31/8 = 3/1! + 1/2! + 2/3! + 1/4! is entered as 3121.
1369 23/08/1956 Overlaps Babs Each across light has 12 letters and may be split into two words in two different ways, the overlap being 2 letters in each case, e.g. MANTISSATRAP; clues define all four words.
1370 30/08/1956 How’s That? Fitzjohn Grid is Times-style; several answers lose NOT on entry (i.e., not out).
1371 06/09/1956 Bridge — II Pipeg Grid represents the distribution of cards in a bridge hand; a narrative of play is given with certain words omitted, whose letter sums equal the sums of pip values of certain cards (J = 14, Q = 16, K = 18, A = 20).
1372 13/09/1956 Imports and Exports Rex Across clues are passages containing anagrams of commodities; lights, all foreign towns, are misprinted anagrams of these.
1373 20/09/1956 Alphabetical Inserts — V Sam Grid is circular; 26 radial lights are formed from the answers by inserting a different letter of the alphabet in each. Outermost and innermost circles spell 'I NEVER BREATHE ITS PURE SERENE' and 'THREE REMOVES IS AS BAD AS A FIRE'.
1374 27/09/1956 Near Misses Simmo Each answer either gains or loses a letter to form the light, another word.
1375 04/10/1956 Cyclic Fives Topher Each row contains three 5-letter words, written cyclically, clued in random sequence.
1376 11/10/1956 The Clock Vectis Grid represents a clock face; twelve 11-letter lights are entered around the numerals. Each clue has two parts; the first leads to the relevant number, the second to the light.
1377 18/10/1956 Triangular Nabla Numerical puzzle concerning triangular numbers.
1378 25/10/1956 (K)night at the Opera Halezfax Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells PHILEMON AND BAUCIS - GOUNOD; PELLEAS AND MELISANDE - DEBUSSY; ARIADNE - MASSENET.
1379 01/11/1956 Sixes and Sevens Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1380 08/11/1956 Hexagrammatos — IV Duplex Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads ISAAC WATTS: AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF: 'HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE IMPROVE EACH SHINING HOUR, AND GATHER HONEY ALL THE DAY FROM EVERY OPENING FLOWER'.
1381 15/11/1956 Variations on a Theme Seadog Grid is five 5 x 5 squares; unclued border lights are all anagrams of TERAS.
1382 22/11/1956 Overlaps — II Babs Each across light has 13 letters and may be split into two words in two different ways, the overlap being 2 letters in each case, e.g. CONTESTRANGER; clues define all four words.
1383 29/11/1956 Heronry Scrap Numerical puzzle concerning four non-right-angled triangles with integral sides and areas.
1384 06/12/1956 euplcaton — 2 ancy [ffancy] All repeated letters in clues and lights are omitted.
1385 13/12/1956 Try Somewhere Else Pipeg Each asterisked clue contains a word defining the light at the place indicated, but belongs as a whole to a light of the same length elsewhere.
1386 20/12/1956 Christmas Knight Sugden Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'BE THIS GOOD FRIENDS OUR CAROL STILL: BE PEACE ON EARTH TO MEN OF GENTLE WILL' - W.M.T.
1387 27/12/1956 No N.E.W.S. from Abroad Egma Lights are geographical locations with N, E, W and S omitted; clues are countries in which they are found.
1388 03/01/1957 Treble Chance Pone Squares contain 1, 2 or 3 letters; rows each give a pair of combatants, e.g. PERSEUS and GORGON; final column is filled with 1, 2 or X according to the outcome.
1389 10/01/1957 Northern Lights — V Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Unclued lights are subjects of poems from which asterisked clues are quotations.
1390 17/01/1957 Green Fingers Vectis Clues (many being DLM) are to common names of plants; lights are the botanical names.
1391 24/01/1957 Shakespeare Unbound — VII Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell ''TIS BETTER TO BE LOWLY BORN AND RANGE WITH HUMBLE LIVERS IN CONTENT'.
1392 31/01/1957 Nodes Seadog Unclued lights are types of knot.
1393 07/02/1957 Cook’s Tour — IV Zander 16 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1394 14/02/1957 Phases of the Moon ffancy Unclued lights are months of the year in different languages.
1395 21/02/1957 Diametricode Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1396 28/02/1957 Aenigma Vergilianum Dionysius Clues are incomplete quotations from Virgil.
1397 07/03/1957 Mixed Tablets Andreas Unclued lights are names of BATTLEs.
1398 14/03/1957 Chain Letters — II Tyke Each across light is the first 4 letters of a 7-letter word; these form a chain with 3-letter overlaps, alternate links of which are clued.
1399 21/03/1957 Playfair — III Pipeg Two diagonals spell 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND'; 6 unclued lights are Playfair-coded animals from the book. KEY: Flamingo
1400 28/03/1957 Triads Sam All lights are still words when either beheaded or curtailed, e.g. EASTERN; clues define all three words.
1401 04/04/1957 Wheels Within — VIII Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'AND GENTLENESS IN HEARTS AT PEACE UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN' by RIPERT BROOKE (third circle).
1402 11/04/1957 False Trail Esrom Numerical puzzle involving differences of squares.
1403 18/04/1957 Oh No John! Meringue 38 positioning clues are two-word DLM; remaining clues are to words or phrases containing JACK (omitted on entry) - these lights are entered in a spiral, in an order to be determined.
1404 25/04/1957 Pros and Cons — V Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1405 02/05/1957 Loaded Dice Wray Grid is the net of a die; each face contains four 4-letter lights arranged clockwise around shaded squares, with adjacent squares at edges containing the same letter.
1406 09/05/1957 Missing Links — V Zander 16 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1407 16/05/1957 Diametricode — II Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1408 23/05/1957 All Clear Pipeg Grid is blank; clues are in normal order, but only 6 are numbered.
1409 30/05/1957 Plain, Padded, or Plush Mayfly Lights either are plain, or have an extra P or H (and are still words).
1410 06/06/1957 A.E.I.O. Leon Lights are entered letter by letter; when binary numbers are superimposed on the rows, the 1s form a grille, by which a Carrollian sorites may be read. Unclued lights are the mnemonical forms of the 19 valid moods of a syllogism.
1411 13/06/1957 Logogriphs — II Topher Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1412 20/06/1957 Multigrades Tyke Numerical puzzle concerning five instances of pairs of 6-tuples of numbers having the same sum of first powers, the same sum of second powers, and so on up to the same sum of fifth powers.
1413 27/06/1957 Solver’s Plea Babs Narrative asking for less complicated crosswords.
1414 04/07/1957 Alphabetical Inserts — VI Sam Grid is Times-style apart from some bars; DLM clues lead to words which each require a different letter to be inserted to form the lights.
1415 11/07/1957 6s and 7s Simmo Lights are 6- and 7-letter, clued in random order; most down lights are jumbled.
1416 18/07/1957 Concert Hall Halezfax Unclued lights are titles of symphonies.
1417 25/07/1957 Tails You Win Pone All lights are beheaded on entry.
1418 01/08/1957 Northern Lights — VI Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down.Each light and/or clue has omitted from it EARTH, AIR, FIRE or WATER.
1419 08/08/1957 Like and Unlike Pipeg Across lights are antonyms of the answers; those down are associated with them.
1420 15/08/1957 Game Reserve Topher About half the lights lose an animal on entry.
1421 22/08/1957 Shakespeare Unbound — VIII Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'TEN THOUSAND HARMS MORE THAN THE ILLS I KNOW MY IDLENESS DOTH HATCH'.
1422 29/08/1957 Find the Link Vectis Each clue defines two words, linked by the light, e.g. (HEAVENLY) BODY (GUARD).
1423 05/09/1957 Quots Trand Numerical puzzle concerning reciprocals in different bases having 6-digit repetends.
1424 12/09/1957 Head Hunting — IV Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'THIS DREADFUL POTHER O'ER OUR HEADS'.
1425 19/09/1957 Baker’s Dozen Tats Clues are DLM; unclued lights are composers. The last appears below the grid; it, together with the first words of the across clues, may be rearranged to form the letters of the other unclued lights.
1426 26/09/1957 Hexagrammatos — V Duplex Grid is hexagonal; a few positioning lights (some jumbled) are clued. A spiral reads HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: A PSALM OF LIFE: 'LET US, THEN, BE UP AND DOING, WITH A HEART FOR ANY FATE; STILL ACHIEVING, STILL PURSUING, LEARN TO LABOUR AND TO WAIT'.
1427 03/10/1957 Opera Score Simmo Unclued lights are operatic characters.
1428 10/10/1957 2es ffancy Unclued lights are ALIASes of Listener crossword setters.
1429 17/10/1957 Tongue-tied Jow Answers to clues are words in other languages; lights are translations into English. Unclued lights are in pairs, being the translations from different languages of the same original word.
1430 24/10/1957 Treasure Hunt Leon Lights, clued in random order, form a chain with 1-letter overlaps; they go in any of 8 directions and change direction once each. In the grid, between the diagonals HALFWAY and MAGINOT, appears A WHITE ELEPHANT.
1431 31/10/1957 Wheels Within — IX Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells ''IF THIS SHOULD STAY TO DINE' HE SAID 'THERE WON'T BE MUCH FOR US'' by LEWIS CARROLL (third circle).
1432 07/11/1957 Four Up Wray Clues are numbered, and some lights entered, BOUSTROPHEDON.
1433 14/11/1957 Tricyquads Trand Numerical puzzle concerning sides of cyclic quadrilaterals in which one diagonal trisects one of the angles.
1434 21/11/1957 Theme and Variations — II Zander Theme-words CHARLEMAGNE (MEGAN, RACHEL); DAVID (DAFFODIL, LEEK); ALEXANDER (HILLSBOROUGH, TUNIS); CAESAR (FUHRER, DUCE).
1435 28/11/1957 Mainly About People Tyke Grid is Times-style; across lights are all proper names, in pairs of mutual anagrams.
1436 05/12/1957 Equations ffancy Each answer contains the letter U; the light is either what precedes it or what follows it, and the sum of the letter-values of the remainder is given.
1437 12/12/1957 1 Down Leon The message DIRECT YOUR STEPS SO, THESEUS WILL LEAD YOU TO THE MINOTAUR may be traced, ending in the centre.
1438 19/12/1957 Christmas Crackery Zander Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON TO ALL SOLVERS.
1439 26/12/1957 Proof Required Andreas Unclued lights are alcoholic drinks.
1440 02/01/1958 New Year Resolutions Babs Narrative containing New Year resolutions.
1441 09/01/1958 Pros and Cons — VI Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1442 16/01/1958 From A to Z Pipeg 13 prefixes and 13 suffixes are denoted by lower case letters, e.g. OVER = i, ER = s, so OVERTOWERS leads to iTOWsS.
1443 23/01/1958 Book-ends Vectis Lights are entered letter by letter; the final sentences of two books can then be traced in the grid.
1444 30/01/1958 Worldly Wise Wray Grid represents a globe with N and S poles; longitudinal lights occur as hidden anagrams in two paragraphs, while equator spells AN IMAGINARY LINE.
1445 06/02/1958 a, b Jaykay Numerical puzzle with clues and lights in base 12, with a = 10 and b = 11.
1446 13/02/1958 Snakes and Ladders Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
1447 20/02/1958 His Day Meringue Asterisked clues lead to owners of dogs, with the dogs being the lights.
1448 27/02/1958 A Pencil and Paper Effort Tyke 18 lights, e.g. ENTERIC, SPEND, WISP, and the PENCIL and EFFORT of the title, give a code used for lights with italicised clues and for some clues.
1449 06/03/1958 Alphabetical Cocktail — II Sam 26 across lights all begin with different letters; the words clued are anagrams of the lights without their initial letters.
1450 13/03/1958 Horatian Leon Clues are incomplete quotations from Horace.
1451 20/03/1958 Baker’s Dozen — II Tats Clues are DLM; unclued lights are US presidents. The last appears below the grid; it, together with the first words of the across clues, may be rearranged to form the letters of the other unclued lights.
1452 27/03/1958 Who’ll Buy? Babs Narrative consisting of advertisements.
1453 03/04/1958 Poetic Circles — V Pipeg Grid is circular; 4 quotations, with words in random order, run circumferentially, with the poets forming four of the radial lights; clues to radial lights define words from which shorter words are removed.
1454 10/04/1958 Reversi C.S.S. Numerical puzzle; grid is a 5 x 5 square which when completed contains each digit from 1 to 5 in each row and column. Clues are the minimum numbers of 'adjacent transpositions' required to produce the numbers starting from 12345.
1455 17/04/1958 By-lines Wray Clues are quotations; lights (all 4-letter) are the authors, to be entered around numbered squares. Clues are given in random order in groups corresponding to the rows.
1456 24/04/1958 Nesting Birds Peto There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel.
1457 01/05/1958 Hour-glass III Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'SOUND, SOUND THE CLARION, FILL THE FIFE, THROUGHOUT THE SENSUAL WORLD PROCLAIM, ONE CROWDED HOUR OF GLORIOUS LIFE IS WORTH AN AGE WITHO
1458 08/05/1958 Wotsitsname? Pone Unclued down lights are bats suspended upside-down; title is BATS IN THE BELFRY.
1459 15/05/1958 Shakespeare Unbound — IX Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows spell 'WHERE IS ANY AUTHOR IN THE WORLD TEACHES SUCH BEAUTY AS A WOMAN'S EYE?'
1460 22/05/1958 Red Tape Meringue 10 unclued across lights are colours; 10 unclued down lights are words associated with them.
1461 29/05/1958 6.45 Babs Unclued lights are ARCHERS; perimeter spells 'I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE AIR' and ''A CLAPPED I' THE CLOUT AT TWELVE SCORE'.
1462 05/06/1958 Nines Ramal Numerical puzzle; eighteen 9-digit lights are the halves of nine 18-digit numbers with the property that placing the first digit at the end halves the number.
1463 12/06/1958 Verbapennes Notlaw Grid is owl-shaped; 26 birds, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, form 4 chains with 1-letter overlaps.
1464 19/06/1958 Elementary Sam Each square must contain an atomic symbol.
1465 26/06/1958 Bits and Pieces Pipeg Some clues lead to antonyms of the lights; some others to words connected to the lights by phrases of the form '____ AND ____'.
1466 03/07/1958 Modern Fates Nut Unclued lights are SPINNER, KEEPER, CUTTER and certain cricketers.
1467 10/07/1958 Bidevilled Cuth There are two identical grids; clues are double DLM.
1468 17/07/1958 (K)night at the Proms Halezfax Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'FUGUES BY BACH INTERWOVEN WITH SPOHR AND BEETHOVEN AT CLASSICAL MONDAY POPS'.
1469 24/07/1958 dy/dx and all that Pone Clues mainly involve mathematics.
1470 31/07/1958 Sixes and Sevens II Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1471 07/08/1958 Diametricode — III Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1472 14/08/1958 Numerical Order Leon Numerical puzzle.
1473 21/08/1958 Put It There Jackdaw Each row and column contains one 5- and two 4-letter lights; clues are in groups of three, with two normal clues to 4-letter lights followed by a clue to a 5-letter light somewhere which also contains a mixture of the 13 letters.
1474 28/08/1958 Wheels Within — X Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'CONFUCIUS STOOD WHO TAUGHT THAT USEFUL SCIENCE TO BE GOOD' from TEMPLE OF FAME (third circle).
1475 04/09/1958 Mixed Bag — II Pipeg 13 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1476 11/09/1958 1A Odif Grid is the net of a cube; narrative, with faces given in random order and orientation.
1477 18/09/1958 Pros and Cons — VII Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1478 25/09/1958 67D.s Nalon Unclued lights are World War II military operations.
1479 02/10/1958 Trisquares Ramal Numerical puzzle involving the first 13 solutions of + n(n + 1) = m¦.
1480 09/10/1958 Loaded Dice — II Wray Grid is the net of a die; each face contains four 5-letter lights reading clockwise, clued in random order, with adjacent squares at edges containing the same letter.
1481 16/10/1958 5 Down Nut Clues are DLM; unclued lights are specimes of African wildlife.
1482 23/10/1958 Northern Lights Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down.
1483 30/10/1958 Crime Club Zander Clues in italics are anagrams of authors of detective stories; the lights are their detectives.
1484 06/11/1958 I haven’t a clue Smada Numerical puzzle; two 7-digit lights are squares of numbers which are the hypotenuses of exactly 13 integral right-angled triangles; the remaining lights are selected from the 52 shorter sides of these triangles.
1485 13/11/1958 Poetry Leon A coded passage purporting to be an extract from Captain Kidd's log is given; certain portions are underlined, and anagrams of these in order give the words to be entered in the grid, forming a message. (Title is meant to suggest solvers 'try Poe', i.e.,
1486 20/11/1958 Poles Apart Jac Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper.
1487 27/11/1958 Band-box Wray Grid is the net of a cube; 6 bands surround it, each bearing four 5-letter words, clued in random order. Letters agree at edges.
1488 04/12/1958 Bilateral Simmo 22 unclued lights are ordinary words which are also the names of Test cricketers, 11 each from England and Australia.
1489 11/12/1958 Deasil and Widdershins Tickatrick Numerical puzzle; the 10 digits are to be entered into a wheel such that all the 10-digit numbers which can be read in either direction share common factors.
1490 18/12/1958 Gilbertian Babs Clues are quotations from Gilbert and Sullivan; one word in the line following (or preceding, if italics are used) that given defines the light.
1491 25/12/1958 A – B = X(mas) Tyke Each clue leads to two words, whose difference forms the light. Reading diagonally gives 'LIFE STILL HATH ONE ROMANCE THAT NAUGHT CAN VARY, NOT TIME HIMSELF WHO COFFINS LIFE'S ROMANCES, FOR STILL WILL CHRISTMAS GILD THE YEAR'S MISCHANCES IF CHRISTMAS COME
1492 01/01/1959 Parts of Speech ffancy Each light is either an anagram, an antonym, a homophone or a synonym of the word clued, depending on which part of speech it is.
1493 08/01/1959 Theme and Variations — III Zander Theme-words SPIRIT (DEEV, AFREET); SUGAR (BABE, HONEY); LEMON (SOLE, DAB); SPICE (VARIETY, LIFE); WATER (EARTH, AIR).
1494 15/01/1959 Capital Issue Didi Unclued lights are 7 countries and their capitals.
1495 22/01/1959 Shah Mat Pipeg Some lights are entered letter by letter; 13 large numbers, when changed to base 4 and entered in the rows, determine what appears in the squares: those with a 0 spell a quotation, 1 four knights, 2 castles, 3 bishops (all using appropriate moves).
1496 29/01/1959 Shakespeare Unbound — X Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows, boustrophedon, spell 'HE LOST A WIFE WHOSE BEAUTY DID ASTONISH THE SURVEY OF RICHEST EYES'.
1497 05/02/1959 Fives Odysseus Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'I HAVE FOUND FOR THIS A TRULY MARVELLOUS PROOF, WHICH THIS MARGIN IS TOO SMALL TO CONTAIN'.
1498 12/02/1959 Classic Cricket Rex Across lights are names of historical Greeks and Romans; 13 unclued lights are the scores, in Roman numerals, made in a supposed cricket match.
1499 19/02/1959 Baker’s Dozen — III Tats Clues are DLM; unclued lights are playwrights. The last appears below the grid; it, together with the first words of the across clues, may be rearranged to form the letters of the other unclued lights.
1500 26/02/1959 Crime Cross-number Spider Numerical puzzle concerning a murder.
1501 05/03/1959 Auto-suggestion UDG 211 [Fudge] Grid is car-shaped. Each light is a word from which three consecutive letters have been omitted; the clue is a 'number plate' showing the discarded letters, the light-length and sum of the letter-values of the light.
1502 12/03/1959 Four Square Det Numerical puzzle; the grid represents a 4 x 4 determinant, the values of 5 of whose second-order minors are given.
1503 19/03/1959 Today’s Code Leon Down clues, and top and bottom across lights, are encoded thus: the keyword (appearing diagonally) is written above a set of columns, in which are written the clue or light; the columns are then taken in the alphabetical order of the letters of the keywor KEY: Thursday
1504 26/03/1959 Nymphaeum Babs 16 nymphs are clued in bold type by hints.
1505 02/04/1959 You Pays Your Money… ffancy Clues are DLM, leading to words containing OR; either remainder is entered.
1506 09/04/1959 Pros and Cons — VIII Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1507 16/04/1959 Haplographic Simmo Anything repeated in the answers appears only once in the lights, e.g. SADDUCEE leads to SADUCE, SEMSEM leads to SEM, SLEEVELESS ERRAND leads to SLEVELESERAND.
1508 23/04/1959 Treasure Chest Wray Grid is the net of a cube; 6 bands surround it, each bearing four 6-letter words, clued in random order. Letters agree at edges. One face spells OPEN HERE; another spells EMERALDS in its perimeter.
1509 30/04/1959 Wheels Within — XI Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'STEAD OF SUPPER SHE WOULD STARE FULL HARD AGAINST THE MOON' from MEG MERRILIES (third circle).
1510 07/05/1959 Four Phi Plus One Pipeg Numerical puzzle with clues of the form 4° + 1 = a¦ + b¦, where ° is the sum of two triangular numbers, each of which is the product of two primes or a square.
1511 14/05/1959 Do-it-yourself Jigsaw Jackdaw DLM clues lead to lights to be entered in jigsaw pieces; other clues assist in positioning. The colours of the rainbow appear as unclued lights.
1512 21/05/1959 Cook’s Tour — V Zander 14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1513 28/05/1959 Metamorphoses Leon Grid is Times-style; clues are incomplete quotations from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'.
1514 04/06/1959 On Stated Terms Babs Unclued lights are nicknames for American States.
1515 11/06/1959 l2 f2 d8 h1 a1 g1 h3 j7 b1 c1 c3 n4 c2 Egma Grid has been given co-ordinates; 9 across clues are provided; other lights are entered letter by letter. Reading BOUSTROPHEDON spells a quotation.
1516 18/06/1959 1D Altex Italicised clues lead to MISNOMERS.
1517 25/06/1959 De Mortuis Wray Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers. 9 are names of famous people clued by quotations, given in random order.
1518 02/07/1959 Schizologia — VI Tyke Grid is Times-style. 3 lights are normal; each of the remainder is split in two. One part is entered to form the beginning or end of the appropriate light; the other is entered elsewhere.
1519 09/07/1959 Fractionary UtdtU Numerical puzzle; grid is Times-style. Lights are repetends of proper fractions with prime denominators in various bases.
1520 16/07/1959 Head-hunting — V Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'WITH A SHAKE OF HIS POOR LITTLE HEAD'.
1521 23/07/1959 Four-fives Jac Two central 11-letter lights are clued; other lights, clued in blocks, form four 5 x 5 squares, yielding four 11-letter perimeter lights.
1522 30/07/1959 The Aesir Pipeg Some lights are entered letter by letter; 13 numbers, when changed to base 5 and entered twice in each row and down the central column, determine what appears in the squares: those with a 0 spell a quotation, 1 four horses (entered along knight's moves),
1523 06/08/1959 ~ Babs Each answer has two adjacent letters transposed on entry.
1524 13/08/1959 Making and Breaking Jackdaw Each row and column has a clue leading to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word and containing the letters in sequence. If the rows are rotated cyclically until the bars at the ends of the 3-letter lights are aligned, ARTHUR ASKEY'S and ONE POUND NOTE appear in
1525 20/08/1959 Alphabetical Inserts — VII Sam 40 clues each define two words, one of which is removed from the other to form a 3- or 4-letter word, with the sum of the letter-values given; these are entered horizonatally to form words with the letters of the alphabet (already inserted).
1526 27/08/1959 The Djintecs Again Vectis Grid is Times-style; half the clues define the lights and half antonyms thereof; half of each group are entered in reverse.
1527 03/09/1959 Cyclic Fours — II Topher Each row contains three 4-letter words, written cyclically, clued by hidden words in random sequence.
1528 10/09/1959 Mathemosaic Tyke Numerical puzzle with clues concerning powers of lights.
1529 17/09/1959 [Musical phrase] Halezfax Unclued lights are names of Haydn symphonies.
1530 24/09/1959 Silk-Satin Jac Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper.
1531 01/10/1959 Vital to This Event Pipeg Right side of grid represents a map of the Levant; the names of the countries and eight towns (unclued) are entered where appropriate.
1532 08/10/1959 Shakespeare Unbound — XI Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows, boustrophedon, spell 'FOR NEVER ANYTHING CAN BE AMISS WHEN SIMPLENESS AND DUTY TENDER IT'.
1533 15/10/1959 Full Board UtdtU Clues are DLM, associated with chesspieces; each light is formed by the consonants of the answer and is entered along successive moves of the chesspiece.
1534 22/10/1959 Foreign Relations Scorpio Unclued lights are FATHER, MOTHER, BROTHER, SISTER in 5 different languages.
1535 29/10/1959 Portmanteaux — III Topher Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order.
1536 05/11/1959 Rogetic Didi Grid is circular with each radial light synonymous with its successor. 16 clues have lights entered letter by letter somewhere within specified sectors.
1537 12/11/1959 Powers of Darkness Topham Numerical puzzle concerning five instances of pairs of 5-tuples of numbers having the same sum of first powers, the same sum of second powers, the same sum of third powers and the same sum of fourth powers.
1538 19/11/1959 Topped and Tailed Sam Across and down answers lose their initial and final letters respectively to form the lights, which are still words.
1539 26/11/1959 Subtopia Jeffec Lights are entered letter by letter; unused squares are blacked in. In the grid may be traced 'DEAR OLD BLOODY ENGLAND OF TELEGRAPH POLES AND TIN, SEEMINGLY SO INDIFFERENT AND WITH SO LITTLE SOUL TO WIN'.
1540 03/12/1959 Chain Letters Jac Lights form an endless chain of 8-letter words with 2-letter overlaps; in most cases only the central 4-letter word is clued.
1541 10/12/1959 One Morn Ahead Simmo Unclued lights are locations on the moon; reading in a circle appears '(HE MADE AN) INSTRUMENT TO KNOW IF THE MOON SHINE AT FULL (OR NO)' - the title is an anagram of the bracketed words.
1542 17/12/1959 Beano Jobri Grid is hexagonal; unclued lights are types of bean. Perimeter followed by most of central row spells 'NINE BEAN ROWS WILL I HAVE THERE, A HIVE FOR THE HONEYBEE' by W.B. YEATS (letters of central hexagon).
1543 24/12/1959 Do It Yourself Tyke The words SINCERE CHRISTMAS GREETING TO THE SETTERS, LISTENER ENIGMATISTS AND ALL READERS are already entered; remaining lights, all unclued, are to use only letters appearing in ONE'S CHRISTMAS A GLAD TIME.
1544 31/12/1959 Logogriphs — III Topher Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1545 07/01/1960 Pi Pie Pipeg Unclued lights are names of saints.
1546 14/01/1960 Poems by Various Hands Babs Grid is Times-style; down clues are second lines of poems, the lights being the second names of the poets.
1547 21/01/1960 Recurring Undecimals pH7 Numerical puzzle, with lights the repetends of various fractions in different bases.
1548 28/01/1960 Missing Links — VI Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1549 04/02/1960 There is no moe such Tyke Unclued lights are Roman emperors.
1550 11/02/1960 Enneads Jackdaw All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares.
1551 18/02/1960 46 Ac. Zander Unclued lights are surnames of people with Christian name EDWARD.
1552 25/02/1960 ESS OCC ONC ONL Hal All lights are 3-letter; clues concern their numerical values using the telephone dial (A, B, C = 2, D, E, F = 3 etc.), which are all different.
1553 03/03/1960 Imp of Mischief — IV Pipeg All clues are PD.
1554 10/03/1960 Otiose ffancy In half of the clues the second letter of each word spells the light; the remainder are double, leading to the light where indicated and another elsewhere.
1555 17/03/1960 Crossfig Rex Kinder Numerical puzzle.
1556 24/03/1960 Ruffles Strikes Again Vectis Grid is circular and represents the discs of a combination lock, each of which is turned between the entry of successive lights, which are rivers. Three rings spell SORRY YOU'VE BEEN TROUBLED: THERE IS NOUGHT INSIDE.
1557 31/03/1960 Cnsnnts (ooa) Babs All vowels are omitted from answers and listed after the clue.
1558 07/04/1960 Northern Lights — VII Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Unclued lights are representatives of groups of seven, e.g. POLYNICES, MONDAY, DOPEY.
1559 14/04/1960 Part-Songs Eli Clues are anagrams of titles of Schubert songs; when certain letters are removed from each the lights are formed.
1560 21/04/1960 Wheels Within XII Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells ''TIS NOT ENOUGH TO HELP THE FEEBLE UP BUT TO SUPPORT HIM AFTER' by W. SHAKESPEARE (third circle).
1561 28/04/1960 All Up Andreas Unclued lights are names of jockeys.
1562 05/05/1960 Pros and Cons — IX Duplex Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are synonyms or antonyms of the missing words.
1563 12/05/1960 Foursquare Jac Two central 11-letter lights are clued; other lights, clued in blocks, form four 5 x 5 squares, yielding four 11-letter perimeter lights.
1564 19/05/1960 A la Mode ffancy Lights are entered in 4 directions; for each direction the letters A to G are to be transposed to another 'mode'. Certain diagonals spell 'ARE WE NOT FORMED, AS NOTES OF MUSIC ARE, FOR ONE ANOTHER, THOUGH DISSIMILAR'.
1565 26/05/1960 ‘Who will o’er the Downs?’ Halezfax Unclued lights are FORMER DERBY WINNERS.
1566 02/06/1960 Playfair — IV Pipeg 6 lights are entered Playfair-coded. KEY: Solmizated
1567 09/06/1960 ‘Midsummer Daydream’ Rex Across lights are 22 Shakespearean characters; 15 unclued lights are the scores, in Roman numerals, made in a supposed cricket match.
1568 16/06/1960 Knight at the Ballet Wray Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT ... A LOVELY APPARITION, SENT TO BE A MOMENT'S ORNAMENT'.
1569 23/06/1960 Starting from Scratch Jackdaw Grid given consists of crosses at corners of squares; in each row and column of crosses dots and dashes are to be entered, spelling clued words in Morse code, to form the bar pattern. The grid is then completed with lights clued normally, given in order i
1570 30/06/1960 Baloney Babs Some down clues lead to the lights and the words obtained by omitting their first and last letters; other down lights are jumbled.
1571 07/07/1960 N-E-W-S Jac Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper.
1572 14/07/1960 Trihedral Rhombus Numerical puzzle with grid representing three faces of a tetrahedron; numbers down the edges are tetrahedral, while other lights are related to triangular numbers.
1573 21/07/1960 Hour-glass — IV Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'GIVE, YOU GODS, GIVE TO YOUR BOY, YOUR CAESAR, THE RATTLE OF A GLOBE TO PLAY WITHAL, THIS GEWGAW WORLD, AND PUT HIM CHEAPLY OFF'.
1574 28/07/1960 Auto-suggestion — II Fudge Grid is car-shaped. Each light is a word from which three consecutive letters have been omitted; the clue is a 'number plate' showing the discarded letters, the light-length and sum of the letter-values of the light.
1575 04/08/1960 Artful Dodgers Egma Unclued lights are jumbled names of artists.
1576 11/08/1960 Square Search Jackdaw The 7 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except Q and S) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, ONE BOOK TOKEN is forme
1577 18/08/1960 Circumnavigation Jeffec Lights are entered letter by letter; a list of places on a world tour may be traced.
1578 25/08/1960 Jigsaw Babs The grid is given in 5 pieces complete with bars, to be assembled (and no bars occur at the joins).
1579 01/09/1960 Alternatives Pimlico All clues have the form '... or ...'; in 8 of them, the two parts define words differing in a single unchecked letter - the first is entered, while the unused alternative letters spell LAUGHTER.
1580 08/09/1960 Small Change Denarius Numerical puzzle in which 10 and 11 are regarded as digits; each digit occurs once in the grid. Lights are 2-digit, representing a sum of money in shillings and pence; clues concern the number of ways of expressing the sum in 2s 6d, 2s, 1s, 6d, 3d and 1d
1581 15/09/1960 Alphabetical Cocktail — III Sam The 26 across lights first have their initial letters (all different) changed, using a different new letter each time, and then are rearranged to form the clued answers.
1582 22/09/1960 Shakespeare Unbound — XII Trochos Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; lights, mainly jumbled, are entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Alternate rows, boustrophedon, spell 'THE SILENCE OFTEN OF PURE INNOCENCE PERSUADES WHEN SPEAKING FAILS'.
1583 29/09/1960 Like and Unlike — II Pipeg Clues prefixed by two numbers lead to words of which synonyms and antonyms form the lights.
1584 06/10/1960 Spider-web Jac 8-letter lights circulate clockwise about the centre; there are 16 positioning lights.
1585 13/10/1960 x-Finger Exercise Spuggie Numerical puzzle in base 5, with each light and its reverse being prime numbers.
1586 20/10/1960 Chop Logic Leon Lights are entered letter by letter in the first grid, which is then cut up and rearranged to form the second grid; this spells a sorites from Lewis Carroll's 'Symbolic Logic'.
1587 27/10/1960 AnaCyph Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'COME INTO THE
1588 03/11/1960 International Literary Festival Andreas Unclued lights are literary characters and their creators, given as joint anagrams.
1589 10/11/1960 Put It There — II Jackdaw Each row and column contains one 5- and two 4-letter lights; clues are in groups of three, with two normal clues to 4-letter lights followed by a clue to a 5-letter light somewhere which also contains a mixture of the 13 letters.
1590 17/11/1960 (K)night at the Play Wray Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'NOW WE SIT THROUGH SHAKESPEARE IN ORDER TO RECOGNISE THE QUOTATIONS' - O. WELLES. Clues are Shakespearean quotations and the lights their speakers.
1591 24/11/1960 Sixes and Sevens — III Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1592 01/12/1960 I haven’t a clue — II Smada Numerical puzzle with lights being members of Pythagorean triples involving 840 as one of the smaller numbers.
1593 08/12/1960 Scene around Kew Pipeg Central 5 x 5 square consists entirely of Bs with QUEEN in the middle; perimeter spells 'LAUGH TO SEE THEM WHIRL AND FLEE LIKE A SWARM OF GOLDEN BEES'.
1594 15/12/1960 3 D Altex Italicised clues are anagrams of two members of a triad, with the light being the third.
1595 22/12/1960 A Christmas Story Babs Narrative concerning the selection of Christmas presents.
1596 29/12/1960 Treble Chance Simmo Each across clue leads to a 12- or 13-letter word, whose letters are to be arranged into three words entered in the appropriate row.
1597 05/01/1961 In Other Words ffancy The initial letter of each clue determines the relationship of the light to the answer: A-D means a homophone, E-G a synonym, H-M an antonym, N-O no change and P-Z an anagram.
1598 12/01/1961 1 Down 2 Across pH7 Narrative with unclued lights being composers with initial letter B removed, e.g. EETHOVEN, ACH.
1599 19/01/1961 A Thorny Problem Jeffec The combination TH in lights is entered as ¦ (thorn).
1600 26/01/1961 Fair Exchange Recon Six pairs of clues have a pair of words exchanged; the lights exchange a pair of letters. In each case the position of the letter exchanged corresponds to the position of the word exchanged in the clue.
1601 02/02/1961 Cook’s Tour — VI Zander 14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1602 09/02/1961 ‘Build Me a Pyramid’ Cheops Grid is the net of a pyramid; vertical lights are jumbled. Running round the outside in alternate squares and then around the base reads 'WHAT NEEDS MY SHAKESPEARE FOR HIS HONOUR'D BONES THE LABOUR OF AN AGE IN PILED STONES?' - JOHN MILTON'S EPITAPH ON WI
1603 16/02/1961 Alphabetical Inserts — VIII Sam Grid is circular with 26 radial lights formed by inserting a different letter each time into the answers.
1604 23/02/1961 Racing Columns Argus 15 fictitious horses' names, each consisting of two words, are clued in random order; clues define the two words and contain a letter-mixture. 3 of the horses also appear as columns.
1605 02/03/1961 Equations — II Trand Numerical puzzle; clues either concern triples of numbers such that their sum and that of any two of them is a square, or have the form a¦ + bc = d¦, c¦ + ba = e¦.
1606 09/03/1961 Tailpieces Babs 7 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 7 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (RESER)VIST, (CAUTE)RISE, (TANTA)LISM, (BRIN)DISI mean that VERMEIL leads to TRELRDM.
1607 16/03/1961 AnaCyph — II Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'CUPID AND MY C
1608 23/03/1961 Half and Half Vectis Each answer is 6-letter; one half is to be entered where it stands, the other elsewhere.
1609 30/03/1961 Wheels Within — XIII Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'A MAN MAY FAIL IN DUTY TWICE AND THE THIRD TIME MAY PROSPER' from MORTE D'ARTHUR (third circle).
1610 06/04/1961 Astiac Jeffec Grid is hexagonal; lights are entered letter by letter. From Input to Output may be traced 'SEEKING A WAY, AND STRAYING FROM THE WAY, NOT KNOWING HOW TO FIND THE OPEN AIR, BUT TOILING DESPERATELY TO FIND IT OUT'.
1611 13/04/1961 Snakes and Ladders — II Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
1612 20/04/1961 The Torn Page Cheops Grid is Times-style; clues have been cut in half and rejoined in random order.
1613 27/04/1961 Bandbox — II Wray Grid is the net of a cube; 6 bands surround it, each bearing four 6-letter words, clued in random order. Letters agree at edges.
1614 04/05/1961 The 17, 13 Scorpio Unclued lights are the 17 POETS LAUREATE; many clues are incomplete quotations.
1615 11/05/1961 H.C.F.s ffancy Clues are double DLM; the letters common to both answers form the light.
1616 18/05/1961 Bird’s Eye Babs Narrative about a species of bird; bar pattern of grid resembles it.
1617 25/05/1961 Wanderer: On the Square Chabon Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'EMPEROR, WHO, BUSIED IN HIS MAJESTY, SURVEYS THE SINGING MASONS BUILDING ROOFS'.
1618 01/06/1961 Test-paper Nut Across lights are all players of INTERNATIONAL CRICKET (unclued).
1619 08/06/1961 Bi-Scalar Pipeg Numerical puzzle, with solutions to the clues correct in base 7 and base 9. Each letter in the clues stands for one number in each base (the numbers may or may not be the same).
1620 15/06/1961 De Mortuis — II Wray Lights are 4-letter, entered clockwise around numbers. 9 are names of famous people clued by quotations, given in random order.
1621 22/06/1961 The ‘Hill’ Jeffec Grid represents the Sussex coastline; lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'BARE SLOPES WHERE CHASING SHADOWS SKIM, AND THROUGH THE GAPS REVEALED BELT UPON BELT THE WOODED, DIM BLUE GOODNESS OF THE WEALD'.
1622 29/06/1961 Fives — II Odysseus Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'ERRORS, LIKE STRAWS, UPON THE SURFACE FLOW; HE WHO WOULD SERCH FOR PEARLS MUST DIVE BELOW'.
1623 06/07/1961 Crescent Thor Italicised clues contain hidden words, whose 'fully-grown' forms are to be entered, e.g. LEATHERJACKET leads to DADDY-LONG-LEGS, LEVERET leads to HARE.
1624 13/07/1961 Cyclic Fours — III Topher Each row contains three 4-letter words, written cyclically, clued by hidden words in random sequence.
1625 20/07/1961 A maze, indeed Jac Clues lead to Shakespearean characters, forming an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps; 9 positioning lights assist in deciding the starting point.
1626 27/07/1961 Tailpiece — II Babs 7 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 7 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (HELSIN)GFORS, (PIN)AFORE, (ROQU)EFORT mean that SETTEES leads to GAEEAAG.
1627 03/08/1961 Theme and Variations — IV Zander Themewords CLUBS (REFORM, SAVAGE); DIAMONDS (KOH-I-NOR, CULLINAN); HEARTS (CELTIC, RANGERS); SPADES (HARTS, SPITS).
1628 10/08/1961 Embedded Squares — III Fudge Grid comprises 36 squares, each surrounded by 4 hexagons. Lights are all 5-letter, with one letter entered in the square and the remainder clockwise in the hexagons so as to spell a 4-letter word anticlockwise. The letters in the squares form a 6 x 6 word
1629 17/08/1961 Swiss Navy ffancy Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-SHIP'.
1630 24/08/1961 Heads and Tails Pimlico Each clue is two words: 8 define the light and the light less its tail; 8 define the light and the light less its head. The 8 heads and 8 tails may be arranged to form two words.
1631 31/08/1961 Part-Songs — II Eli Clues are anagrams of titles of Schubert songs; when certain letters are removed from each the lights are formed.
1632 07/09/1961 Knight at the Proms — II Wray Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells CENERENTOLA - ROSSINI; BRIGG FAIR - DELIUS; MASKARADE - NIELSEN; EROICA - BEETHOVEN.
1633 14/09/1961 For the Subtile Man Tyke Numerical puzzle concerning 5 Pythagorean triples of the form a, a+1, 5b.
1634 21/09/1961 Habitats Cheops 15 incomplete quotations lead to nicknames for football clubs, whose towns are the lights.
1635 28/09/1961 Even More Elementary Sam Each square is to contain an atomic symbol; each element up to atomic number 92 is used at least once.
1636 05/10/1961 Homonymous — III Topher 39 lights are homophones of the answers.
1637 12/10/1961 Bookworm Jeffec Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube; lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'THEY HAVE IN ENGLAND A COIN THAT BEARS THE FIGURE OF AN ANGEL STAMPED IN GOLD, BUT THAT'S INSCULP'D UPON; BUT HERE AN ANGEL IN A GOLDEN BED LIES ALL WITHIN'.
1638 19/10/1961 Jog-trot Jac Grid is blank, to be filled in Times-style; each square is split into two triangles. Each clue is double, giving two geographical names (undefined); the first is entered in the lower triangles, the second in the upper.
1639 26/10/1961 Polyglottal Tetraptych Cheops Grid is in 4 parts; 24 incomplete quotations lead to words to be translated into French, German, Italian or Latin to form the unclued lights.
1640 02/11/1961 Three-in-hand ffancy In each square the letter from the across light is entered in the top right-hand corner, that from the down light in the bottom left-hand corner, and the sum of the two in the middle; these, taken diagonally, spell 'PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBE
1641 09/11/1961 Enneads — II Jackdaw All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares.
1642 16/11/1961 Five-powered Square Mathematica Numerical puzzle involving five 10-digit fifth powers.
1643 23/11/1961 Astronomical Pipeg Narrative concerning astronomy; the combinations IN, TO and US are omitted wherever they occur.
1644 30/11/1961 Otiose — II ffancy Half the clues are double, with one part a single word and the other a DLM clue; the first light is entered where indicated, the second elsewhere. In the remaining clues the 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th etc. letters spell the lights.
1645 07/12/1961 Logogriphs — IV Topher Ten 9-letter across lights can be rearranged into a 4- and a 5-letter word; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1646 14/12/1961 36—19 Halezfax Unclued lights are WINTER SPORTS resorts in Austria and Switzerland.
1647 21/12/1961 Christmas Crackery — II Zander Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell SEASONAL SALUTATIONS FROM ZANDER TO ALL.
1648 28/12/1961 Poetaster Babs Narrative comprising 7 'poems'.
1649 04/01/1962 Highbrows Jeffec Unclued lights are fells in the Lake District.
1650 11/01/1962 Head-hunting — VI Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'I'M COMING, FOR MY HEAD IS BENDING LOW'.
1651 18/01/1962 Threes and Fours Ramal Numerical puzzle; clues are linear functions of three numbers, one a power of 3, one a power of 4, and one either m or p where the sum of the first m cubes is the fourth power of p.
1652 25/01/1962 21-Plus Leon Lights are entered letter by letter; read in a spiral, the grid spells A FLAVESCENT OOIDAL OFFSPRING OF A FRUGIFEROUS ARBOREAL GROWTH, WITH ASTRINGENT SUCCUS; RELISHED BY CARPOPHAGOUS ATHLETES AND ICHTHYOPHAGISTS ON PLEURONECTES PLATESSA. The answer's a l
1653 01/02/1962 Per Ardua Ultra Astra Pipeg Some lights are entered letter by letter; 13 large numbers, when changed to base 6 and entered in the rows, determine what appears in the squares: those with a 0 spell a quotation, 1 four Paladins (along knight's moves), 2 demons, 3 horses, 4 dogs and 5 p
1654 08/02/1962 Square Search — II Jackdaw The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except Q and S) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (S)ERGEANT-MAJOR is for
1655 15/02/1962 Honeycomb Jac Grid comprises hexagons superimposed on a square lattice; top and bottom rows, and leftmost and rightmost columns, are regarded as joined together. Each hexagon contains a 6-letter word entered clockwise, with letters agreeing at edges.
1656 22/02/1962 Honours Even Badger Unclued lights are theatrical dames and knights.
1657 01/03/1962 Tailpiece — III Babs 7 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 7 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (SPATTER)DASH, (ENTHUS)IASM, (HANDC)LASP, (SPEAK)EASY mean that DIDDLED leads to HMHHPYH.
1658 08/03/1962 EWQREPTB ZF ETPG [Wray] Clues are encoded by placing the codeword above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing each letter by that above or below it; unclued lights are places in Devon and Cornwall. KEY: Buckfastleigh
1659 15/03/1962 Missing Roman Numerals Nut Lights lose all instances of O, I, V, X, L, C, D, M on entry.
1660 22/03/1962 Straight Egma Normal.
1661 29/03/1962 Chop and Change Rhombus Numerical puzzle; lights, all 3-digit, form a chain in which each is obtained from its predecessor by alternately permuting its digits and taking the sum of its divisors (excluding itself).
1662 05/04/1962 Classified Lights Jeffec Clues are presented in 3 groups, in correct order within each, according to the parts of speech to which the answers belong.
1663 12/04/1962 Devilled Cubes Ad Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube with blacked cells; clues are PD.
1664 19/04/1962 AnaCyph — III Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'METHINKS I GAZ
1665 26/04/1962 Simple Thor Italicised clues contain hidden words which are simples, the sources of the vegetable drugs which are the lights.
1666 03/05/1962 Alphabetical Cocktail — IV Sam The 26 across lights all begin with different letters; these are removed and the letters rearranged to form the lights, which also all begin with different letters.
1667 10/05/1962 Clock Patience Leon Card puzzle, with circular grid representing a game of clock patience; ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued separately.
1668 17/05/1962 The Great Divide Pipeg Unclued lights are all to do with Australia; those more than 6 letters long are split in two and have other letters interpolated.
1669 24/05/1962 Power Sums Trand Numerical puzzle; clues are 5-tuples of fractions in three groups. In the first group the sum is equal to the sum of the squares; in the second the square of the sum is equal to the sum of the cubes; in the third the cube of the sum is equal to the sum of
1670 31/05/1962 Phantasmagoria Simmo Across lights and 1 Down (all unclued) are a collection of fantastic items, taken mostly from myth and legend.
1671 07/06/1962 The Wright Map Jeffec Grid is circular; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'HE DOES OBEY EVERY POINT OF THE LETTER THAT I DROPPED TO BETRAY HIM: HE DOES SMILE HIS FACE INTO MORE LINES THAN ARE IN THE NEW MAP WITH THE AUGMENTATION OF THE INDIES' - SH
1672 14/06/1962 Dramatic (K)night Aeschylus Clues are incomplete quotations from Aeschylus; lights are entered letter by letter in Greek. In the grid a quotation may be traced.
1673 21/06/1962 Coded Pairs Pimlico 12 unclued 4-letter lights comprise 6 words and their coded forms, using a simple substitution cipher.
1674 28/06/1962 AnaCyph — IV Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'THE WORLD'S A
1675 05/07/1962 Missing Links — VII Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1676 12/07/1962 Wall Flowers Egma Grid is a wall of bricks; lights are entered, with letters in random order, in and around numbered bricks, which form five 7-letter plants; six other plants appear around the perimeter.
1677 19/07/1962 Knight at Table Wray Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells 'BIRDS IN THEIR LITTLE NESTS AGREE WITH CHINAMEN BUT NOT WITH ME' - BELLOC, 'ON FOOD'.
1678 26/07/1962 A Matter of Conscience ffancy Narrative, with certain checked squares containing more than one letter.
1679 02/08/1962 Ring the Changes Rhombus Numerical puzzle; each column is a 5-digit number, obtained from its neighbour by interchanging two digits.
1680 09/08/1962 Channel Pilot Jeffec Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'THE GOODWINS, I THINK THEY CALL THE PLACE; A VERY DANGEROUS FLAT, AND FATAL, WHERE THE CARCASSES OF MANY A TALL SHIP LIE BURIED'.
1681 16/08/1962 Wheels Within — XIV Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'DREAM WHILE THE INNUMERABLE CHOIR OF DAY WELCOME THE DAWN' from NIGHTINGALES (third circle).
1682 23/08/1962 Musical Switch Strebor Lights are entered letter by letter; a chain of 30 composers, written alternately forwards and backwards and with 1-letter overlaps, forms a spiral.
1683 30/08/1962 Middle Ages Babs The leading diagonal contains the final letters of 18 lights ending in -AGE.
1684 06/09/1962 [Dominoes] [12 23] or [21 32] Pipeg Grid is pentagonal, made up of irregular quadrilaterals and pentagons. Clues are double or ordinary DLM; lights, entered one per region, are pairs of consecutive letters in the answers. Adjacent regions contain pairs arranged as in the title, e.g. RE, ET
1685 13/09/1962 Tourism for Beginners Mendax Across lights are clued by incomplete rhymes involving names of towns (which are not given), e.g. 'I'm not such a ______ as to denigrate (LEICESTER)' leads to JESTER.
1686 20/09/1962 Assemblage Line Jac Clues lead to pairs of words, the first being the noun of assemblage of the second. The second words form an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps.
1687 27/09/1962 Hour Glass — V Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF YEARS THERE CAME TO THE MAKING OF MAN TIME WITH A GIFT OF TEARS, GRIEF WITH A GLASS THAT RAN'.
1688 04/10/1962 Circumbendibus Fudge 33 lights form a chain with 2-letter overlaps; clues to several positioning lights are given.
1689 11/10/1962 Bi-Devilled — II Cuth There are two identical grids; clues are double DLM.
1690 18/10/1962 ‘Honi Soit …’ Jeffec Grid is shield-shaped; the bordure reads 'WHEN FIRST THIS ORDER WAS ORDAINED, MY LORDS, KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER WERE OF NOBLE BIRTH'.
1691 25/10/1962 ‘How Beautiful They Are!’ Babs Unclued lights are 9 objects named after Lords, e.g. WELLINGTON.
1692 01/11/1962 All Done By Mirrors Nabla Numerical puzzle; clues give the possible integral object- and image-distances for a mirror of a particular radius of curvature.
1693 08/11/1962 Squares and Ladders Pipeg Clues to 9 positioning lights are given; other lights are (mainly) unclued rungs of word-ladders, and there are four 5 x 5 word-squares.
1694 15/11/1962 Sixes and Sevens — IV Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are all misplaced.
1695 22/11/1962 Outer Spaces Simmo Unclued lights around the perimeter of the gridare planetary satellites within the solar system.
1696 29/11/1962 Portmanteaux — IV Topher Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order.
1697 06/12/1962 Tetrahedral Rhombus Numerical puzzle; grid forms four sides of a pyramid. Lights down edges are pyramidal numbers; other lights are related squares.
1698 13/12/1962 Beaune for Dog Babs Italicised clues lead to alcoholic lights, those down being quotational blunders, e.g. '________ makes the heart grow fonder' leads to ABSINTHE.
1699 20/12/1962 Transformation Scene Tyke Letters in across lights falling in the four unbarred columns are changed to form new words; the columns read SINCERE CHRISTMAS GREETING TO ALL THE LONG-SUFFERING YET FORGIVING SOLVERS.
1700 27/12/1962 Double Top Sam Across clues each lead to two words with the same initial letter, different in each case; these are removed and the remainders adjoined to form the lights, e.g. LENT, LICE lead to ENTICE.
1701 03/01/1963 Bilingual Nut Each light is also a word in Latin; each clue contains a translation of the Latin word.
1702 10/01/1963 Fives — III Odysseus Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'FAMILIES ARE SO MIXED NOWADAYS: INDEED AS A RULE EVERYBODY TURNS OUT TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE'.
1703 17/01/1963 A Worthy Pioner Jeffec Lights are entered letter by letter; a route on the underground can then be traced in the grid.
1704 24/01/1963 Space-saver — II Babs Each answer is entered in half as many squares as the word has letters, e.g. ZOOZOO leads to Z O O, HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY leads to H/P I G G L E D Y.
1705 31/01/1963 Cook’s Tour — VII Zander 13 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1706 07/02/1963 The One That Got Away Topher 56 answers contain a fish, to be removed on entry.
1707 14/02/1963 Observations Trand Numerical puzzle; clues concern rational approximations to solutions of the equation x¦ + y¦ = 100 (to be discovered) for integral values of x.
1708 21/02/1963 Swansdown Jac 26 clues lead to 5-letter words, to be entered in such a way as to make twelve 11-letter lights (including SHAKESPEARE in the central column).
1709 28/02/1963 Leo Kim’s Lecture Doghouse Ten authors of quotations are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced PERSUASION, AUSTEN; SILAS MARNER, ELIOT; MOBY DICK, MELVILLE; HARD TIMES, DICKENS.
1710 07/03/1963 Associations Nut Each light is part of a phrase; each clue is DLM, and includes the remainder of the phrase for the diametrically opposite light.
1711 14/03/1963 QTTNSFRMSHKSPR Phyz Clues are quotations from Shakespeare with vowels omitted, containing the word or words to be entered vertically. Top and bottom rows of grid spell LIFE IS BUT A MELANCHOLY FLOWER and LIFE IS BUTTER MELON CAULIFLOWER; middle row is NEITHER TOO GLOOMY NOR
1712 21/03/1963 Roundabout Jeffec Unclued lights, arranged in a spiral, are artificial satellites.
1713 28/03/1963 Left oVers Smada Numerical puzzle with most lights clued by their remainders modulo n for two or three values of n. All lights are pentagonal numbers, enabling remaining corner of grid to be completed.
1714 04/04/1963 Ding Dong Chabon Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are entered letter by letter and then transposed to another grid where a knight's tour spells 'THEN BEFORE BREAKFAST, DOWN TOWARD THE SEA I RAN ALONE MONARCH OF MILES OF SAND'.
1715 11/04/1963 Same Again, Please! Peto 24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consectuive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. BR(ANCHI)AE, TE(ACHIN)G lead to CHINACHINA.
1716 18/04/1963 Theme and Variations — V Zander Themewords HILARY (ILARIO, HILAIRE); EASTER (EGG, BONNET); TRINITY (OREIL, KEBLE); MICHAELMAS (MAILE, CHASM).
1717 25/04/1963 Nesting Birds — II Peto There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel.
1718 02/05/1963 Logogriphs — V Topher Twelve 9-letter across lights can be rearranged into a 4- and a 5-letter word; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and two anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1719 09/05/1963 The Serpent Egma Grid is spiral, representing a serpent; lights are 5-letter and jumbled. Perimeter spells 'CLOSE THE SERPENT SLY INSINUATING WOVE WITH GORDIAN TWINE HIS BRAIDED TRAIN' from PARADISE LOST (at the centre).
1720 16/05/1963 Channel Pilot — II Jeffec Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'TO SOUTHAMPTON: ... THENCE TO FRANCE SHALL WE CONVEY YOU SAFE, AND BRING YOU BACK, CHARMING THE NARROW SEAS TO GIVE YOU GENTLE PASS; FOR, IF WE MAY, WE'LL NOT OFFEND ONE STOMACH'.
1721 23/05/1963 Monumentum aere perennius Sacerdos Clues are incomplete quotations from Horace.
1722 30/05/1963 Cross-Doubles Jac Across lights are alternative descriptions of Shakespearean characters, clued in random order and with clues containing letter-mixtures of the characters.
1723 06/06/1963 Snakes and Ladders — III Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
1724 13/06/1963 Shuffling the Pack Adam Numerical puzzle, with clues concerning the number of interleaving shuffles required to return a pack of a certain number of cards to its original state.
1725 20/06/1963 Striptease Wray Lights are entered letter by letter; the columns formed are then to be rearranged so that reading boustrophedon gives 'ATTEMPT THE END AND NEVER STAND TO DOUBT NOTHING IS SO HARD BUT SEARCH WILL FIND IT OUT'.
1726 27/06/1963 As the Highwayman Said Babs 18 clues worded in the fashion of the title lead to lights which are British place-names.
1727 04/07/1963 Change Partners Badger 22 clues (mainly incomplete quotations) lead to well-known business names, whose partners are to be entered in places to be discovered.
1728 11/07/1963 Scytale Cheops Grid is Times-style; perimeter letters form a scytale, reading 'THE ONE WHICH REMAINS MUST BE THE TRUTH'. 7 clues, indicated by italicised comments in brackets, lead to words linked to 4 (the size of the scytale) by references to Sherlock Holmes.
1729 18/07/1963 Box Search Jeffec Grid is the net of a cube; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'SAY ... HOW FAR IT IS TO THIS SAME BLESSED MILFORD; AND, BY THE WAY, TELL ME HOW WALES WAS MADE SO HAPPY AS T'INHERIT SUCH A HAVEN'.
1730 25/07/1963 Squares and Ladders — II Pipeg 8 positioning lights are clued; other lights are unclued rungs of word-ladders, and there are two 4-letter and two 5-letter word-squares.
1731 01/08/1963 Highlands and Islands Eli Narrative concerning a Scottish holiday; unclued lights (all Scottish lochs and islands) appear as letter-mixtures.
1732 08/08/1963 Alphabetical Inserts — IX Sam Grid is circular; 26 circumferential lights, all proper names, are formed by inserting a letter, different each time, in the answers.
1733 15/08/1963 Dog Days — II Babs Narrative in Latin concerning a man's life-history.
1734 22/08/1963 Fractionary — II UtdtU Numerical puzzle; grid is circular, with radial lights the 5-digit repetends of fractions with prime denominators, clued by the numerators, in varying bases up to 10.
1735 29/08/1963 Fraudful Simmo Unclued lights are artificial flies.
1736 05/09/1963 Wheels Within — XV Trochos Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations; lights are all 5-letter, mainly jumbled. Outermost circle spells 'WE GROPE TOGETHER AND AVOID SPEECH GATHERED ON THIS BEACH' by THOMAS S. ELIOT (third circle).
1737 12/09/1963 Athruz Jac Answers are entered with letters in alphabetical order.
1738 19/09/1963 1413 and all that Loki Unclued lights are words substituted in forgetfulness for things, e.g. THINGUMAJIG.
1739 26/09/1963 Novel Names Bap Most clues lead to names of novels; the lights are authors or characters.
1740 03/10/1963 Fortuna Favet Fortibus Jeffec Grid is the net of a cube; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'TENDER-HANDED STROKE A NETTLE AND IT STINGS YOU FOR YOUR PAINS; GRASP IT LIKE A MAN OF METTLE, AND IT SOFT AS SILK REMAINS'.
1741 10/10/1963 The Torn Page — II Cheops Grid is Times-style; clues have been cut in half and rejoined in random order.
1742 17/10/1963 Cordial Entente Waterloo Across clues and answers are in English; those down are in French. The lights are translations of the answers.
1743 24/10/1963 The Following Have Arrived — III Babs Lights (all 11-letter) are names of fictitious race-horses; sire and dam are given, and letter-mixtures occur in racing tips.
1744 31/10/1963 Clock Patience — II Leon Card puzzle, with circular grid representing a game of clock patience; ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued separately.
1745 07/11/1963 Twilight Twist Jac Most lights are formed from the answers by replacing CON by PRO, OFF by ON etc., still forming words.
1746 14/11/1963 Crash-Dive Jeffec Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'WHAT THOUGH THE MAST BE NOW BLOWN OVERBOARD, THE CABLE BROKE, THE HOLDING ANCHOR LOST AND HALF OUR SAILORS SWALLOW'D IN THE FLOOD? YET LIVES OUR PILOT STILL'.
1747 21/11/1963 A Rescue! Fang Clues are incomplete Shakespearean quotations; 27 other quotations, in random order, give Shakespearean characters as lights.
1748 28/11/1963 P-D Pipeg All clues are PD.
1749 05/12/1963 Hour Glass — VI Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'DOES THE EAGLE KNOW WHAT IS IN THE PIT OR WILT THOU GO ASK THE MOLE? CAN WISDOM BE PUT IN A SILVER ROD, OR LOVE IN A GOLDEN BOWL?'
1750 12/12/1963 All Change Trand Numerical puzzle, with clues of the form (f, N, r) = N', meaning that there are f factors, with product N, which when regarded as being in base r have product N' (in base 10).
1751 19/12/1963 Key-phrase Cipher Leon Lights are entered letter by letter; first column and row spell THE SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE, which encodes the letters A to Z outside the grid. The remainder of the puzzle is then a coded message from prison.
1752 26/12/1963 Christmas Crackery — III Zander Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell CRUCIVERBAL FELICITATIONS FROM ZANDER.
1753 02/01/1964 Carrefour Jac Grid is cross-shaped. All clues have 5-letter answers, some of which combine to form 10- or 15-letter lights; clues are in random order, but are alternately across and down.
1754 09/01/1964 Overlaps — II Babs 3 concentric squares consist of chains of 6- and 8-letter words, overlapping by half their length, defined in clockwise order.
1755 16/01/1964 YRUSMVMOQJHRU Wray Clues are encoded by placing the codeword above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing each letter by that above or below it; unclued lights are Swiss cantons. KEY: Switzerland
1756 23/01/1964 Nonsense rhymes — II Ramal Grid is Times-style; each clue is a nonsense rhyme of two lines, the first containing a definition of the light and the second an anagram of the symmetrically opposite light.
1757 30/01/1964 Dodecahedron Jeffec Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell ONE BOOK TOKEN) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
1758 06/02/1964 No 23 ffancy All lights lose ARTICLES from various languages on entry. Half the clues are normal and lack articles; the rest are DLM and contain articles corresponding to those omitted.
1759 13/02/1964 Weightless Pipeg 19 lights are formed from the answers by inserting or adding a weight, e.g. CA-LIBRA-TES.
1760 20/02/1964 8 98 515053 Rhombus One grid has numerical lights; the other, spelling MATHEMATICS IS THE ETHEREALIZATION OF COMMON SENSE, is a decoded version of the first, where the code replaces each letter by its remainder modulo s.
1761 27/02/1964 Like little boys … Leon Unclued lights each contain a silent letter, e.g. CALM, SWORD.
1762 05/03/1964 Sixes and Sevens — V Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
1763 12/03/1964 Amœba Jac Grid comprises five 5 x 5 squares, with the central one meeting each of the others at one square. All answers are 5-letter, with clues grouped in random order; four 10-letter lights are formed.
1764 19/03/1964 Association of ideas Eris Each light is associated with the answer by a phrase '... of ...', e.g. THUMB leads to RULE.
1765 26/03/1964 Listen, Mum Jeffec 22 unclued lights have a silent initial consonant.
1766 02/04/1964 Synant Ramal Grid is Times-style; lights are clued by synonyms or antonyms in lines of doggerel, in random order but symmetrically paired.
1767 09/04/1964 Platform Party Zander Unclued lights are names of executioners.
1768 16/04/1964 Dove-tail Jac Grid is divided into four identical pieces, splitting some lights; clues are given to the words in each piece.
1769 23/04/1964 Merely players Sam Across clues are Shakespearean quotations; the lights are anagrams of the speakers.
1770 30/04/1964 Mathematical ladders Leon Numerical puzzle concerning 'ladder' problems.
1771 07/05/1964 x and y Jeffec Unclued lights across are Dorset villages beginning with TARRANT; those down are Essex villages ending with RODING.
1772 14/05/1964 Find the lady Badger 30 clues in capitals are anagrams of an author and one of his or her female characters, the latter being the lights.
1773 21/05/1964 Fantastic Symphony Eli Italicised clues lead to names of symphonies; in each case one letter is to be replaced with the key of the work.
1774 28/05/1964 Cyclic fours and fives Topher Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For one light in each row the true clue is a single word hidden in the apparent clue; in each column the clues are d
1775 04/06/1964 Tout court Leon Unclued lights can be prefixed or suffixed by COURT.
1776 11/06/1964 Pentominoes Rhombus Numerical puzzle in which the 12 pentominoes, each containing the digits 1 to 5, are fitted into a rectangle; the down lights are all products of five primes.
1777 18/06/1964 Isosceles Vectis Each clue defines three words, to be entered so as to form a right-angled isosceles triangle.
1778 25/06/1964 27 ac. Rev. Unclued lights are names of BIBLEs.
1779 02/07/1964 V-a-V’s Jac Grid comprises five 5 x 5 squares forming a V shape; clues are given in largely random order.
1780 09/07/1964 Out of this world Jeffec Grid is circular; lights are entered letter by letter. In the grid may be traced 'IT IS NOT AS THOUGH MAN HAD ANY USE FOR THE MOON. WHAT GOOD WOULD THE MOON BE TO MEN? EVEN OF THEIR OWN PLANET WHAT HAVE THEY MADE BUGT A BATTLE-GROUND AND THEATRE OF INFINI
1781 16/07/1964 Second Parties Mass 20 unclued lights are second names in BRITISH AND IRISH PUBLISHING FIRMS; first names are hidden as anagrams in a piece of prose. Clues are DLM.
1782 23/07/1964 Swordsongs — II ffancy Several lights are formed from the answers in some way, e.g. MOTHER-IN-LAW leads to LAMOTHERW, HUNCHBACK leads to HCNUH.
1783 30/07/1964 Knight at the Proms — III Wray Lights are entered letter by letter; a knight's tour spells SATYRICON - IRELAND; VYSEHRAD - SMETANA; PROVENCALE - MILHAUD; ROMANTIC - BRUCKNER.
1784 06/08/1964 Tri-scalar Pipeg Numerical puzzle; with solutions across correct in base 9 and base 11, and those down in base 8 and base 9. Each letter in the clues stands for one number in each base (the numbers may or may not be the same).
1785 13/08/1964 Theme and variations — VI Zander Themewords STARR (SEDGE, RUSH); HARRISON (WILLIAM, AINSWORTH); MCCARTNEY (MERCY, CANT); LENNON (HUTTON, NOT).
1786 20/08/1964 Happy families Babs Some lights occur in names of purported families, e.g. ' Mr. Steer the PILOT and his daughter BERTHA'.
1787 27/08/1964 Portmanteaux — V Topher Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order.
1788 03/09/1964 Science fantasy Simmo Across lights are cyclic permutations of creatures.
1789 10/09/1964 3-in-1 Jeffec Grid is an isometric drawing of a solid body with crosswords on three faces; the first and last clue in each group refer to the particular puzzle, but others need not.
1790 17/09/1964 Travelogue ffancy Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; grid covers a map of the world. Narrative, with unclued lights being the names of places situated in their initial squares.
1791 24/09/1964 Follow-my-leader Jac Clues lead to words beginning with BLACK, BROWN, GREEN, GREY, ROSE or WHITE; only the remainder is entered, and these form an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps.
1792 01/10/1964 Sets for amusement Rhombus Numerical puzzle concerning unions and intersections of sets of people liking particular entertainments.
1793 08/10/1964 Meaningless! Egma 9 lights consist of a word less the letters of a synonym, e.g. NOURISHED - NURSED leads to OIH.
1794 15/10/1964 Quadri-penta-hexagonal Pipeg Grid comprises hexagons (with pentagons and squares at edges) superimposed on a square lattice. Each polygon contains a word entered clockwise (usually), with letters agreeing at edges; the perimeter spells 'SO FULL OF SHAPES ... 'TIS HIGH FANTASTICAL'.
1795 22/10/1964 Popular mystery Babs Unclued lights are names in a song from 'Patience'.
1796 29/10/1964 Face to face Jeffec Grid is the net of a cube, with each face Times-style; lights are all 7-letter, and letters agree at edges.
1797 05/11/1964 Anagralgebra Anticos 24 clues lead to 5-letter words with no repeated letters, in 4 groups, within each of which any pair of words have exactly one letter in common. Each word is treated as the set of its letters, and lights are clued by unions and intersections.
1798 12/11/1964 Fretted with Golden … Eli Unclued lights are volcanoes, those across being active and those down inactive.
1799 19/11/1964 Enneads — III Jackdaw All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares.
1800 26/11/1964 A flawed floor Jeffec Grid is the plan of a wooden floor made up of 2 x 1 blocks, 43 of which have been reversed.
1801 03/12/1964 Pythagorean Triads Leon Numerical puzzle involving five triads of right-angled triangles with integral sides and equal areas.
1802 10/12/1964 Close of play Arch Grid is circular; 11 clues lead to the names of Test cricketers, to be entered letter by letter according to their scoring strokes, to spell 'FOR THE FIELD IS FULL OF SHADES AS I NEAR THE SHADOWY COAST, AND A GHOSTLY BATSMAN PLAYS TO THE BOWLING OF A GHOS
1803 17/12/1964 M’mm Jac Grid comprises five 5 x 5 squares forming an M shape. All answers are 5-letter, with clues in random order within groups; various longer lights are formed.
1804 24/12/1964 Puddings, Pies, etc. ffancy Most clued lights are entered in two parts; 8 lights are anagrams of the answers; 3 have the form NUTS IN MAY leading to MNUTSAY; some lights are unclued. Certain diagonals spell SINCERE GREETINGS TO ALL SOLVERS..
1805 31/12/1964 Mulberry Bush — II Topher Each light is a cyclic permutation of the answer; half the clues define the lights and anagrams thereof.
1806 07/01/1965 Elliptical Fudge Each answer leads to the light somehow, e.g. FIREBACK leads to ERIF, MARABOUTS leads to MASR.
1807 14/01/1965 Same again, please! — II Peto 24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consectuive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. M(USC)ID, RE(SCU)E lead to CUSCUS.
1808 21/01/1965 Classified Lights — II Jeffec Clues are presented in 4 groups, in correct order within each, according to the parts of speech to which the answers belong.
1809 28/01/1965 Head-hunting — VII Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'THOU ART A TRAITOR: OFF WITH HIS HEAD!'
1810 04/02/1965 Sums Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form X + Y = Z where X, Y and Z are 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits.
1811 11/02/1965 Alphabetical Cocktail — V Sam The 26 across lights all begin with different letters; clues lead to anagrams beginning with the same letters.
1812 18/02/1965 Diametricode — III Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1813 25/02/1965 Pub crawl Ploutos 12 answers contain half of a common pub name, to be replaced on entry by the other half, e.g. UNCHILD leads to UNEAGLE.
1814 04/03/1965 Fives — IV Odysseus Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'LET NOT EACH BEAUTY EVERYWHERE BE SPIED, WHERE HALF THE SKILL IS DECENTLY TO HIDE'.
1815 11/03/1965 Cook’s Tour — VIII Zander 13 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1816 18/03/1965 Singular anomalies Badger Unclued lights are first names and surnames of 14 lady novelists.
1817 25/03/1965 Squares and Ladders — III Pipeg 10 positioning lights are clued; other lights are unclued rungs of word-ladders, and there are four 5-letter word-squares.
1818 01/04/1965 N or NN Rhombus Numerical puzzle involving 'binumbers', obtained by repeating each digit, e.g. the binumber of 734 is 773344.
1819 08/04/1965 Rotator Jeffec Except for 9 palindromes, each clue leads to the light and its reverse.
1820 15/04/1965 Escalator Jac Lights are entered with successive letters alternately to the right of and below their predecessors.
1821 22/04/1965 Con-man’s career Babs Narrative concerning the life of a con-man.
1822 29/04/1965 All in one Simmo Unclued lights are names of towers in the Tower of London.
1823 06/05/1965 Clock patience — III Leon Card puzzle, with circular grid representing a game of clock patience; ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued separately.
1824 13/05/1965 17 Across Analog 8 clues leads to members of QUADRUPLETS, the lights being other members, e.g. SPADES leads to HEARTS.
1825 20/05/1965 Runs amuck Rhombus Numerical puzzle with all lights formed from sets of consecutive digits, e.g. 24531.
1826 27/05/1965 Monarchs of all they survey Eli Unclued lights are names of highest mountains in their respective countries; those across are in the northern hemisphere and those down in the southern.
1827 03/06/1965 Missing links — VIII Zander 14 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1828 10/06/1965 Try somewhere else — II Pipeg Each asterisked clue contains a word defining the light at the place indicated, but belongs as a whole to a light of the same length elsewhere.
1829 17/06/1965 Tautonyms Jeffec Unnumbered clues lead to English names of birds, whose Latin equivalents consist of one word repeated, this word being the light.
1830 24/06/1965 Daedalogue Gong Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights; within the grid may be traced 'THE WAY IS ALL SO VERY PLAIN THAT WE MAY LOSE THE WAY'.
1831 01/07/1965 Complementary Bap Each answer is linked to its light via a phrase of the form '... and ...', e.g. BREAKFAST leads to BED.
1832 08/07/1965 Du boeuf au naturel Jac 24 words form an endless chain with 1-letter overlaps; each consists of an animal inside another word. Clues lead to the full words and also contain definitions of the 'outer' words.
1833 15/07/1965 Roman style — II Babs Answers are entered in Roman numerals, e.g. GARNET leads to VIIIXVIIIXIVVX.
1834 22/07/1965 Triagrams Sam Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram.
1835 29/07/1965 Face to face — II Jeffec Grid is the net of a cube, with each face Times-style; lights are all 7-letter, and letters agree at edges.
1836 05/08/1965 Amomeous Simmo Unclued lights are literary or traditional Utopias.
1837 12/08/1965 Part-songs — III Eli Clues are anagrams of titles of Schumann songs; when certain letters are removed from each the lights are formed.
1838 19/08/1965 Snakes and ladders — IV Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
1839 26/08/1965 Tête-à-tête Gong The 26 across answers all have different initial letters; these must be altered on entry to form new words, with all initial letters still different. 15 down clues are MP; the remainder have misprinted lights (still words).
1840 02/09/1965 Operatic Babs Unclued lights are operas crossed by their composers.
1841 09/09/1965 Spiroquote Jac Lights are Shakespearean characters and are entered letter by letter; starting at the centre and spiralling outwards reads 'SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED HEREAFTER; THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A TIME FOR SUCH A WORD. TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW CREEPS IN THIS PET
1842 16/09/1965 Mixed couplets — II Pipeg Some clues are two lines of verse by different authors with three or more consecutive letters in common, forming the light, e.g. BRIDGES, COLERIDGE lead to RIDGE.
1843 23/09/1965 Sixes and sevens — VI Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
1844 30/09/1965 Paired Jeffec An equal number of MPs are lost from across and down lights.
1845 07/10/1965 Furor arithmeticus Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form xZy / Z = w e.g. 819564/1956 = 419.
1846 14/10/1965 Apollogies Simmo Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-OMANCY'.
1847 21/10/1965 Displaced persons — II Peto Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
1848 28/10/1965 About time, too! Jac Unclued lights are the Jewish months apart from AB.
1849 04/11/1965 Mayday Jeffec Unclued lights are ships which met violent ends.
1850 11/11/1965 Hour-glass — VII Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as '... SEE THE WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND, AND A HEAVEN IN A WILD FLOWER, HOLD INFINITY IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, AND ETERMITY IN AN HOUR'.
1851 18/11/1965 Half the battle Rhombus Numerical puzzle concerning pairs of 3-digit numbers containing the digits 1 to 6, whose products contain only these digits.
1852 25/11/1965 Logodaedaly Leon Lights are entered letter by letter, to form (interlaced) SQUIRES MOST ATTRACTIVE FIND THE XANTHOCHROIC KIND, BUT WHEN CHOOSING SOMEONE FOR A SQUAW ADMIRE MELANOCHROI THE MORE and THE PNEUMA OF HUMOUR IS TO SUPPRESS ALL WORDINESS.
1853 02/12/1965 Tailpiece — IV Babs 8 lights extend beyond the grid, and the extended parts show how to encode 8 lights with italicised clues, e.g. (S)QUARELY, (B)RIAREUS, (BU)CHAREST mean that LYRIST leads to QUUSCH.
1854 09/12/1965 Fives — V Odysseus Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'CAVANAGH WAS THE ADMIRATION OF ALL THE FIVES COURTS WHERE HE EVER PLAYED'.
1855 16/12/1965 Elementary, my dear Watson Buff 14 answers each lose two letters on entry to form other words defined in their clues; the letters lost are the chemical symbols of the rare earth elements, with the missing member, DY, entered in the central squares.
1856 23/12/1965 Christmas Crackery — IV Zander Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles and limericks; certain diagonals spell ZANDER TENDERS BEST WISHES FOR YULETIDE.
1857 30/12/1965 Super-imposition ffancy Each row contains two interleaved words, one in red and one in black; some diagonal lights are clued (ignoring colours).
1858 06/01/1966 Hunt the title Analog Lights are entered letter by letter to spell REARRANGE ANSWERS TO FIRST TWENTY-SIX CLUES IN GROUPS OF TWO TO FORM BOOK TITLES. INITIALS OF AUTHORS' SURNAMES TAKEN IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE IN CLUES OF FIRST WORD OF EACH TITLE REVEAL PHRASE; this is READING M
1859 13/01/1966 Good Evans! Trand Numerical puzzle with lights being moves in a game of chess (Evans' gambit).
1860 20/01/1966 Downcast Simmo Unclued lights are names for the devil.
1861 27/01/1966 Arabic style — II Babs Lights are entered numerically, with one digit per square, e.g. CUBAL leads to 3212112.
1862 03/02/1966 10 knots Pipeg 10 unclued lights are defined either among the unchecked letters or in the title.
1863 10/02/1966 Head-hunting — VIII Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'ALL THE STARS HIDE THEIR DIMINISHED HEADS'.
1864 17/02/1966 Feetornonergeifyfeetone ffancy 11 down lights beginning FOR- indicate ways in which across answers are to be altered, e.g FOREFEET means that ROUES leads to ROUFEETS.
1865 24/02/1966 Key words Peto Each letter is represented by A, B, C, D, E, F or G according to the remainder modulo 7 of its numerical value; unclued lights are LAKM+ - DELIBES; IOLANTHE - SULLIVAN; NORMA - BELLINI; KOANGA - DELIUS; MARTHA - FLOTOW; MIGNON - THOMAS.
1866 03/03/1966 Neo-Johnsonese! Egma 12 answers are replaced by their American equivalents, e.g. LIFT leads to ELEVATOR.
1867 10/03/1966 Twin-set Jac There are two identical grids; each clue leads to two answers, one for each grid.
1868 17/03/1966 Triagrams — II Sam Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram.
1869 24/03/1966 Dicey Rhombus Numerical puzzle concerning a set of three dice, each numbered with 6 different digits totalling 30, thrown 12 times.
1870 31/03/1966 Stations Jeffec Unclued lights across are TOM SNOUT, ROBIN STARVELING, FRANCISCO, ANTONIO, BAPTISTA, WILLIAM, SAUNDER SIMPCOX, AUTOLYCUS; those down are TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SAILOR, RICH MAN, POOR MAN, BEGGARMAN, THIEF.
1871 07/04/1966 Science fantasy — II Simmo Across lights are cyclic permutations of plants.
1872 14/04/1966 Three-legged race Fudge There are two grids, each with 24 unclued lights; 24 lettered clues lead to words forming the right leg of a phrase with an unclued light from the left grid and the left leg with one from the right grid, e.g. BATH OLIVER TWIST.
1873 21/04/1966 C., 5D., and W Snab Across lights are generic names from the British flora; their clues are DLM and lead to common names of members of the genera, e.g. NETTLE leads to URTICA. The title refers to Clapham, Tutin and Warburg's 'Flora of the British Isles'.
1874 28/04/1966 Predators ffancy Unclued lights are former Chancellors of the Exchequer.
1875 05/05/1966 Chop chop Pipeg Each light is entered without its head and/or its tail; certain diagonals spell 'CUT OFF THE HEADS, LOP OFF THE TAILS; THAT'S WHAT YOU DO - IT NEVER FAILS'.
1876 12/05/1966 ‘There’s magic in the web’ Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues being equations with left-hand sides of the form M / N, where M is a 6-digit number and N a 3-digit number containing between them the 9 positive digits.
1877 19/05/1966 Eponymous Babs Unclued lights are objects named after people.
1878 26/05/1966 Versification Gong Two 'poems' each comprise 10 lines of verse, with one word omitted and the remainder reordered; the 10 unclued lights in each direction are the omitted words, with the poets' names given in random order.
1879 02/06/1966 Double chance Jac Asterisked clues have lights encoded by a substitution cipher to form new words.
1880 09/06/1966 VWLLSS Jeffec All vowels are omitted from clues and lights.
1881 16/06/1966 Missing Links — IX Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
1882 23/06/1966 Loose threads Simmo Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-OPHOBIA'.
1883 30/06/1966 Highlands and islands — II Eli Narrative concerning a Scottish holiday; unclued lights (all Scottish glens) appear as letter-mixtures or are hidden.
1884 07/07/1966 Word to the wise Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters SAP in some order.
1885 14/07/1966 Nohow Rhombus Numerical puzzle involving numbers of the form N0H0W (entered as NHW) which are products of two 3-digit primes.
1886 21/07/1966 Nominal association Jeffec Unclued lights are objects otherwise named after saints, e.g. CHOREA (St. Vitus' dance), HYPERICUM (St. John's wort).
1887 28/07/1966 Octagram Jac 8 lettered clues have solutions of which 4 or 6 anagrams are entered as a block.
1888 04/08/1966 Half and half Gong The perimeters of the grid and of the central 7 x 7 square form two endless chains of 6-letter words with 3-letter overlaps, defined in random order.
1889 11/08/1966 Tomfoolery Alexis Unclued lights are former court jesters.
1890 18/08/1966 Justyn Print Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Black Death' leads to ASA SPADES.
1891 25/08/1966 Game reserve — II Topher 62 lights lose the name of an animal on entry.
1892 01/09/1966 3-D e.w. T-Sq. Jac Grid is the net of a cube with letters agreeing at edges. 12 edge clues each define a 5-letter word and its reverse; 6 positioning lights are clued, with other clues grouped in faces, these being in random order.
1893 08/09/1966 Lucky Numbers Reflector Numerical puzzle with all lights palindromic; those across are divisible by 13 and those down by 7.
1894 15/09/1966 Diametricode — IV Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1895 22/09/1966 Heads, bodies and legs Gong Down lights are 12-letter, and are split into 3 equal parts and entered in 3 different columns (one part being entered in the correct column).
1896 29/09/1966 Red in — Jeffec At least half the lights are Spenserian.
1897 06/10/1966 Coding exercise Andreas Each light is encoded, with 12 pairs of letters (omitting X and Z) being represented by 12 single letters, the letter representing each pair being their average using numerical values (with Y = 24).
1898 13/10/1966 Logogriphs — VI Topher Ten 10-letter across lights can be rearranged into two words; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
1899 20/10/1966 Alphabetical cocktail — VI Sam Grid is circular; the outer circle comprises the alphabet. The 26 radial clues lead to cyclic permutations of the lights.
1900 27/10/1966 Fictional Pipeg 18 clues lead to the names of fictional characters.
1901 03/11/1966 Casemates Bap 32 clues lead to first names of fictional detectives; the lights are the corresponding surnames.
1902 10/11/1966 Occasional Visitors Simmo Unclued lights are comets.
1903 17/11/1966 Dodecahedron — II Jeffec Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell WIN OUR PRIZES) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
1904 24/11/1966 ‘Clep’d All by the name of—’ Freca 11 unclued lights are names of Shakespearean dogs.
1905 01/12/1966 Galaxy Smada Numerical puzzle with grid comprising seven 5-pointed stars, each being magic with the same magic constant. There are 7 initial clues of the form x¦ = y¦ + z¦.
1906 08/12/1966 Cook’s Tour — IX Zander 14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
1907 15/12/1966 15A (8) Babs Narrative consisting largely of a poem in the style of 'Daffodils'.
1908 22/12/1966 Cadeau de Noël Jac Each light loses the letters E and L at least once.
1909 29/12/1966 On the buses Alexis Unclued lights across are racing drivers; those down are orchestral conductors.
1910 05/01/1967 Mixed Bag — III Pipeg 10 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1911 12/01/1967 Poles and axes Mass Half the lights are formed from the answers by combining 'poles', e.g. COMATOSE leads to COMOSE; the other half are 'axes' of the answers, e.g. ANNOUNCE leads to NOUN.
1912 19/01/1967 Mirror, mirror Jeffec Diametrically opposite lights are reversals of each other, clued in pairs; each double clue is normal in one half and contains a hidden anagram in the other.
1913 26/01/1967 Double Acrostic Sumydid Across clues are DLM; initial and final letters of across lights spell 'LOVE IN IDLENESS' and 'DOLCE FAR NIENTE'.
1914 02/02/1967 6’s and 7’s Jac All lights are 6- or 7-letter; four central positioning lights are clued first, thereafter clues are in random order in four groups corresponding to the four quarters of the grid.
1915 09/02/1967 Snakes and Ladders — V Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
1916 16/02/1967 Can you do division? Rhombus Numerical puzzle, with lights clued by the numbers of their divisors.
1917 23/02/1967 Alphabetical inserts — X Sam Grid has black squares and one bar; each light is formed from the answer by inserting a different letter of the alphabet. Each clue contains an italicised word which defines one of the lights.
1918 02/03/1967 Double quits Babs Each answer loses a double letter to form the light.
1919 09/03/1967 Battleships Anticos Grid is blank with co-ordinates, to be divided up by ten battleships (blacked out blocks of squares). Each clue is given a location and hits either its light or a ship having its answer as name; different lengths of ship have different categories of name.
1920 16/03/1967 Fives — VI Odysseus Each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word). New letters spell 'THE QUINCUNX OF HEAVEN RUNS LOW AND 'TIS TIME TO CLOSE THE FIVE PORTS OF KNOWLEDGE'.
1921 23/03/1967 Zodiacal Sign in Eclipse Freca 16 lights lose the suffix '-LION' on entry.
1922 30/03/1967 Two in one Gong Each across light is one word inside another, e.g. AN-ARCH-Y; clues define the two words and contain a letter-mixture of the whole.
1923 06/04/1967 Analphabetics Rasmo Whenever the letter A or B appears in an answer it is replaced by the letter from the intersecting light; the replacements spell CENSOR THE FIRST TWO OF THE TWENTY-SIX.
1924 13/04/1967 Classified lights — III Jeffec Clues are presented in 6 groups, in correct order within each, according to the parts of speech to which the answers belong.
1925 20/04/1967 On figures lost Simmo Unclued lights are extinct creatures.
1926 27/04/1967 ‘And the last shall be first’ Rhombus Numerical puzzle concerning examination marks obtained by five pupils, which when standardised reverse the ranking order.
1927 04/05/1967 Literal rendering Fetman The five vowels are already entered down the central column; in the completed grid the whole alphabet appears in order in phalanx formation. Unclued lights are 'COPIED ALL THE LETTERS' and CONNECTED WITH ORDER'.
1928 11/05/1967 D O able? Fudge A simple substitution cipher is used for down lights and across clues (which are simply definitions).
1929 18/05/1967 Incremental Rufus Grid is blank with co-ordinates. The starting square of each light is given; the positions of subsequent letters are determined by the addition or subtraction of given increments to or from the co-ordinates of the current square. The central columns spell
1930 25/05/1967 Hanoned = Butwosh Freca 11 lights are birds; ORNITHOLOGICAL is unclued.
1931 01/06/1967 Cyclic fours and fives — II Topher Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For across lights, 18 clues lead to the light and an anagram, while the other 27 lead to the light and a misprint; f
1932 08/06/1967 Humbly yours Jac Unclued lights are Shakespearean servants. 3-letter lights are anagrams of 5-letter answers less the letters AT; 4-letter lights across are the differences between 7-letter and 3-letter words e.g. ARIMASP, RAP lead to AIMS.
1933 15/06/1967 Bilingual Babs Each light is a word in both English and Latin; each clue contains an interpolated definition of the Latin word elsewhere.
1934 22/06/1967 The Lord’s combinations Alexis Unclued lights across and down are BATs and BALLs respectively.
1935 29/06/1967 Mixed Bag — IV Pipeg 8 normal clues are given first; remaining lights are defined by one or more words in a line of doggerel.
1936 06/07/1967 Centrepieces Bap Unclued lights are middle names of writers.
1937 13/07/1967 Interpolation Egma Each light is the centre of 3 consecutive headwords in Chambers' Mid-Century Dictionary; the other two are clued, one by definition and the other by subsidiary indication.
1938 20/07/1967 Dodecahedron — III Jeffec Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell QUITE CORRECT) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
1939 27/07/1967 Haplographical Simmo Anything repeated in the answers appears only once in the lights, e.g. GARGARISM leads to GARISM, HOLLOW-WARE leads to HOLOWARE.
1940 03/08/1967 Double bisectors Trand Numerical puzzle concerning lengths of lines in geometrical figures involving a bisected angle.
1941 10/08/1967 Hour-glass — VIII Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIME WALK UPON ENGLAND'S MOUNTAINS GREEN? AND WAS THE HOLY LAMB OF GOD IN ENGLAND'S PLEASANT PASTURES SEEN?'
1942 17/08/1967 From our Persian correspondent Ploutos Letters in across lights falling in the five unbarred columns are changed to form new words; the columns read 'UNBORN TOMORROW AND DEAD YESTERDAY - WHY FRET ABOUT THEM IF TODAY BE SWEET?'
1943 24/08/1967 Diametricode V Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
1944 31/08/1967 Not hanged, nor quartered Freca 15 unclued lights each forma phrase beginning DRAW, e.g. BLANK, CHEQUE.
1945 07/09/1967 N on Si ns ffancy Each answer loses one letter to form the light, which is still a word; subsidiary indications are to the lights.
1946 14/09/1967 Retranslation Thor Italicised slues contain words which must be 'retranslated' into mythical characters from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'.
1947 21/09/1967 They're after Samuel Alexis Unclued lights are titles of kings and other rulers.
1948 28/09/1967 Bridge — III Pipeg Grid represents the distribution of cards in a bridge hand; a narrative of play is given with certain words omitted, whose letter sums equal the sums of pip values of certain cards (J = 14, Q = 16, K = 18, A = 20).
1949 05/10/1967 Heslereperoses Jac Unclued lights across and down are the Seven against Thebes (HEROES) and the Seven SLEEPERS respectively.
1950 12/10/1967 For connoisseurs Dogop Unclued lights are titles of 5 crosswords and their setters from The Connoisseur's Crossword Book.
1951 19/10/1967 Soft answers Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters IRE in some order.
1952 26/10/1967 Riddleculous Freca 10 lights are answers to riddles, given in random order.
1953 02/11/1967 A flawed floor — II Jeffec Grid is the plan of a wooden floor made up of 2 x 1 blocks, 47 of which have been reversed.
1954 09/11/1967 Hexominoes Rhombus Numerical puzzle; grid is a jigsaw of the 12 hexominoes in a 6 x 12 rectangle, each containing the digits from 1 to 6. Down lights are haexagonal numbers (except one).
1955 16/11/1967 Sixes and Sevens — VII Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
1956 23/11/1967 The sweetest of all … Brad Asterisked clues lead to the first names of singers; the surnames are the lights.
1957 30/11/1967 Dicatacrypt Jac Each down answer is interpreted literally to form the light (always a word), e.g. DOUBLET leads to TEETOTAL, BROKEN NOSE leads to ONES.
1958 07/12/1967 Dividing the Swift Mind Sumydid Reading boustrophedon, the grid spells THERE SAT ON A LOG IN IRAN OMAR, 'O GIVE ME,' HE BEGAN, 'VERSE, WET IN FLASK I OMIT NOT TO ASK, ADD ONE LOAF, AND THOU, SWEET ON DIVAN.' and EVER LOYAL ART, RED SETTER: 'I AVER SOVIET CROSSWORD'S BETTER.'
1959 14/12/1967 Christmas entertainment Dogop Initial letters of across lights spell 'NO PLACE FOR THEM IN THE INN'; these are each entered encoded by adding CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT, e.g. N + C = Q, O + H = W.
1960 21/12/1967 At the present time ffancy Most lights have DLM clues; the rest appear in a narrative.
1961 28/12/1967 Hippodrome Pipeg Unclued lights are famous horses.
1962 04/01/1968 Complementary — II Bap Each answer is linked to its light via a phrase of the form '... and ...', e.g. TRANSFIGURATION leads to DEATH.
1963 11/01/1968 Aurora Borealis Twudge Unclued lights are stations on the Northern line of the London Underground.
1964 18/01/1968 Variations on a theme Alexis Theme-words SPADE (DELF, DIG, TRENCH); HEART (EARTH, HATER, RATHE); DIAMOND (KOHINOOR, ORLFF, PITT); CLUB (DRONES, LITERARY, PICKWICK).
1965 25/01/1968 Triagrams — III Sam Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram.
1966 01/02/1968 Guilt complex Leon The completed grid contains a path tracing the 12 processes involved in the search for the philosopher's stone (less '-TION' in each case), beginning and ending in the same square.
1967 08/02/1968 Nesting birds — III Peto There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel.
1968 15/02/1968 Coincidence Ploutos Unclued lights are people the centenary of whose birth or death falls in 1968; their unchecked letters occur in 4 supplementary clued words.
1969 22/02/1968 Bits and Pieces Babs There is a chain of linked words beginning KAKEMONO, MONOPOLY, POLYMER; the beginning of each word is entered where clued and the remainder elsewhere as the beginning of another word. At three points the chain splits and later reforms.
1970 29/02/1968 The P and S Game Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form (a, b: c) with c = a + b + ab.
1971 07/03/1968 Songs their mothers taught them? Freca 15 clues are puns or spoonerisms involving songs, e.g. 'Meat-purveyor: _______ arms around me, deary!' leads to BUTCHER.
1972 14/03/1968 Dodecahedron — IV Jeffec Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell CUT OUT SEND IN) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
1973 21/03/1968 Simple Addition Egma Unclued lights, when paired together, form simples, e.g. FEVERFEW, ANGELICA.
1974 28/03/1968 Curate’s Egg Jac Unclued lights across and down are the 7 cardinal virtues and the 7 deadly sins, respectively.
1975 04/04/1968 Concealed Upright Dogop Each across light loses a letter on entry, spelling 'ONE BY ONE CREPT SILENTLY TO REST'.
1976 11/04/1968 Revolutionaries Sumydid Each across clue is a double clue to two words, the light and a cyclic permutation thereof.
1977 18/04/1968 Northern Lights — IX Log All letters N, S, E, W and groups NE, SE, NW, SW are entered as arrows suitably oriented, with North at the top for across lights and at the right for down. Several answers omit LOG on entry.
1978 25/04/1968 Questionable Characters Bap Across lights are misprinted Shakespearean characters, clued by quotations descriptive of the characters in which brief definitions of the lights have been inserted.
1979 02/05/1968 Variations on a Theme — II Alexis Theme-words KING (MELCHIOR, GASPAR); QUEEN (CONSORT, REGNANT); BISHOP (POPE, CARDINAL); KNIGHT (GARTER, ELEPHANT); ROOK (RAVEN, CARRION-CROW).
1980 09/05/1968 Our Mutual Friends Klick Unclued lights across are types of CROSS; those down are DOWNs.
1981 16/05/1968 Crazy Paving Albipedius Solid bars divide the grid into twenty-five 3 x 3 squares; whenever a light crosses one of these bars, it may be displaced by a row or column.
1982 23/05/1968 Odds and Ends Rhombus Numerical puzzle; four groups of clues are given, each involving three 3-digit primes a, b, c containing the 9 positive digits, so that a + b - c and c + b - a are also 3-digit primes.
1983 30/05/1968 Same again, please! — III Peto 24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consectuive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. S(ERBI)AN, F(IREB)LIGHT lead to BERIBERI.
1984 06/06/1968 A Cryptic Triptych Ploutos Grid is in three vertical sections; 6 lights in each are also words in French, German or Latin, and definitions in their clues consist of translations of the foreign words.
1985 13/06/1968 CSUCCT Babs Title is SUCCINCT; all lights are entered in this fashion.
1986 20/06/1968 Versification — II Gong Two 'poems' each comprise 10 lines of verse, with one word omitted and the remainder reordered; the 10 unclued lights in each direction are the omitted words, with the poets' names given in random order.
1987 27/06/1968 Head-Hunting — IX Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'EACH SECOND STOOD HEIR TO THE FIRST'.
1988 04/07/1968 Stocktaking Jeffec Clues are incomplete quotations; lights are entered letter by letter, spelling items stolen by AUTOLYCUS.
1989 11/07/1968 Et Seq Jac Unclued lights are Shakespearean attendants.
1990 18/07/1968 Quinbus Flestrin Freca Asterisked clues and their lights refer to 'Gulliver's Travels'.
1991 25/07/1968 Signs and Symbols Sumydid 12 squares contain signs and symbols, e.g. C&IDATE, úAL.
1992 01/08/1968 Point Blank Fudge The starting square of each light is given; each section of the light preceding a point N, S, E, W, NW, NE, SW or SE is entered in the appropriate direction.
1993 08/08/1968 Holiday Hints — 1968 Azuriel Definitions of the lights occur in order in a passage of holiday hints, in which the lights are also hidden.
1994 15/08/1968 Double Acrostic Dogop Initial and final letters of across lights spell 'IF SO IT PLEASE THEE CLOSE IN MIDST OF THIS THINE HYMN MY WILLING EYES'.
1995 22/08/1968 Olla Podrida Klick Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. IRISH STEW leads to RISHI.
1996 29/08/1968 Points don’t count Hal Lights are numerical, with any decimal points ignored.
1997 05/09/1968 Masq Albipedius Shaded squares (in rows and columns numbered 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13) form a magic alphabetic square; eight of the letters must be deduced.
1998 12/09/1968 Seconds Babs 14 unclued lights form 7 pairs, being the second (Christian) name of a composer and the second name in the title of one of his operas, e.g (Arthur) SEYMOUR (Sullivan) leads to (Box and ) COX.
1999 19/09/1968 Half and Half Ploutos All lights are entered in two halves, the first where indicated and the second elsewhere.
2000 26/09/1968 Crossword No Two Thousand Sam Across lights omit a letter each time it appears, spelling CROSSWORD NO TWO THOUSAND.
2001 03/10/1968 The Fighting XIIth Ramal Numerical puzzle involving various accounts of an ambush on a Roman legion.
2002 10/10/1968 Pyrotechnic ffancy Grid represents a jumping cracker; DLM clues lead to a chain of words with 1-letter overlaps, entered up and down the cracker. Horizontal and diagonal lights are clued normally; shaded squares read LIGHT THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER AND RETIRE IMMEDIATELY.
2003 17/10/1968 Chop and Change Brad Half the lights are anagrams of the answers, the others part of the answers.
2004 24/10/1968 Treasured Thoughts Ratat÷sk Grid is blank with co-ordinates; DLM clues in three passages lead to three chains of lights with 1-letter overlaps. Each light bends once at right angles; map references give squares through which the lights pass. The single X in the grid locates the trea
2005 31/10/1968 Dodecahedron V Jeffec Grid is the net of a dodecahedron; each face contains a 6-letter light with one letter in the centre (these spell REAPS A REWARD) and the other 5 rearranged into another word (these are clued in random order). Letters agree at edges.
2006 07/11/1968 Projectosubstiquote Jac Across lights, if misprinted by 2 letters in those of 6 or more letters and by 1 letter otherwise, spell a quotation; the misprints are entered in an extension frame. Down lights are jumbled.
2007 14/11/1968 Acephalous Egma All lights lose an initial letter A.
2008 21/11/1968 All A Bart Unclued lights are towns at the end of the appropriately-numbered A road, e.g. 1 leads to EDINBURGH, 16 leads to GRIMSBY.
2009 28/11/1968 The System of Time Lascia Unclued lights across are planets; those down are months.
2010 05/12/1968 Lights Out Sumydid From each asterisked clue the light has been omitted (in two or more words), e.g. 'Aspirations I may 'ave, but all are short-sighted' leads to MYOPES.
2011 12/12/1968 Dogberrydom Alexis Each unclued across light is an animal, which links with one down to form a flower: LEOPARD's BANE, VIPER's BUGLOSS, HAWK's BEARD, ELEPHANT's EARS, BEAR's BREECH, SHEEP's SORREL, LAMB's LETTUCE, COLT's FOOT.
2012 19/12/1968 Priority and Parity Freca 5 'Priority' and 6 'Parity' clues each lead to the first part of a proverb, the second part being the light, e.g. PREVENTION leads to CURE, NOD leads to WINK.
2013 26/12/1968 Connected Triads Pipeg Theme-words POINT (CAPE, CARDINAL); WELLS (BATH, SPRINGS); CRIPPS (STAFFORD, BRISTOL); PORTER (PORRET, REPORT); FAIRFAX (JANE, EMMA); RUDOLPH (REINDEER, LAKE); PARTLET (HEN, DAME).
2014 02/01/1969 Hocofos Rhombus Numerical puzzle with 10 clues of the form 'the HCF of A and B is C' where A and B are of the form H0C0F0S, represented in the grid as HCFS. Unchecked digits are regrouped in pairs and clued separately.
2015 09/01/1969 Chequer-work Gong Grid represents an elongated chessboard; the back row of a set of white chessmen moves from top to bottom, each spelling a sequence of words with the king tracing 'HELPLESS PIECES OF THE GAME'.
2016 16/01/1969 Two-Way Stretch Dogop Grid is in two identical halves; each clue leads to both lights at the location.
2017 23/01/1969 Spoilt Child Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters ROD in some order.
2018 30/01/1969 Triagrams — IV Sam Each across clue is a double clue to a pair of anagrams, and also contains a letter-mixture; the light is a third anagram.
2019 06/02/1969 Take Five Brad Only the vowels of each light are entered.
2020 13/02/1969 You're Welcome! Jeffec Lights are entered letter by letter; in the grid may be traced 'FROM HEBUDES DARK WITH RAIN TO EASTERN LODON'S FERTILE PLAIN AND FROM THE SOUTHERN RED'S WIRE EDGE TO FARTHEST ROSSES ROCKY LEDGE FROM WEST TO EAST FROM SOUTH TO NORTH'.
2021 20/02/1969 Ricochet Jac Unclued lights are parts of 'ricochet' words, e.g. (CLITTER-)CLATTER, FIDDLE(-FADDLE), defined separately in random order.
2022 27/02/1969 Subtraction Bart Each answer loses a letter or letters to the value of the diagram number on entry.
2023 06/03/1969 ENIGMAthematica Leon Some clues are 'teasers'; completed grid is a magic square.
2024 13/03/1969 Laid Bare Mass 16 answers lose BARK, HIDE, PEEL, PELT, RIND or SKIN on entry.
2025 20/03/1969 Co-partners Simmo 18 unclued lights are connected with various counties in Great Britain, e.g. (YORKSHIRE) PUDDING, (ABERDEEN) ANGUS.
2026 27/03/1969 Pluswords Sumydid Five groups of three 5-letter words, omitted from five couplets, are such that adding the first two letter by letter produces the third, e.g. AMBER + AEGIS = BRINK.
2027 03/04/1969 Justyn Print — II Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Excursion' leads to SALLY FORTH.
2028 10/04/1969 Square Search — III Jackdaw The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except D and Q) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (Q)UANTUM MERUIT is for
2029 17/04/1969 Questionable Characters — II Bap Across lights are misprinted Shakespearean characters, clued by quotations descriptive of the characters in which brief definitions of the lights have been inserted.
2030 24/04/1969 An Unconsidered Trifle Dogop Across lights are clued in sequence by definitions in an extract from 'The Winter's Tale' (Act III, Scene iii).
2031 01/05/1969 Not Nice Fudge Unclued lights, in crossing pairs, form anagrams of names of biscuits.
2032 08/05/1969 Love me Love … Alexis Unclued lights are famous dogs.
2033 15/05/1969 Threesomes Rhombus Numerical puzzle; a, b, c and x, y, z are each three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, such that a + b + c = x + y + z and a¦ + b¦ + c¦ = x¦ + y¦ + z¦, these equations holding true when any one or two corresponding digits of the si
2034 22/05/1969 Take Your Pick Ploutos Whenever an across light meets a down light they disagree, but by taking one of the two alternatives it is possible to construct a perfect diagram.
2035 29/05/1969 Estate Agency Freca Unclued lights are 7 literary residences, with the corresponding authors clued in random order: WILDFELL (BRONTE), BLEAK (DICKENS), SEVEN GABLES (HAWTHORNE), DOLLS' (IBSEN), HEADLONG (PEACOCK), HEARTBREAK and WIDOWERS (SHAW).
2036 05/06/1969 Stump the Theme Apex Unclued central column contains CHAPMAN, SMITH; across clues are LL, spelling JARDINE, CLOSE on the left and BROWN, HAMMOND on the right.
2037 12/06/1969 The first shall be last The last shall be first Klick The last names of 6 celebrities appear in across answers and their first names in down answers; these names are transposed on entry, e.g. SAMBO, JEWELLER lead to WELLERBO, JESAM.
2038 19/06/1969 Diamond Pipeg PERFECT NUMBER and PANCAKE TOSSER (clued) appear in a diamond shape.
2039 26/06/1969 Chequerwork II Gong Grid represents an elongated chessboard; the back row of a set of white chessmen moves from top to bottom, each spelling a sequence of words with the king tracing 'BURIED IN THE KING'S HIGHWAY'.
2040 03/07/1969 Diametricode VI Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues are either normal with encoded lights or encoded with normal lights..
2041 10/07/1969 Swops Sam Each across light is formed by tranposing a pair of letters in the answer.
2042 17/07/1969 Ten by Seven Jeffec Italicised clues are double, each leading to two words which together form an anagram of the light; those across are the story-tellers in the Decameron and those down their servants.
2043 24/07/1969 I haven’t a clue — III Smada Numerical puzzle; grid is a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, with lights taken from the edges and face diagonals from a set of 50 cuboids with the same prime internal diagonal (50 being the maximal number for the value in question).
2044 31/07/1969 Decaniclary Jac Unclued lights across are the 7 Sages of Greece; those down are the 7 deacons of the early church.
2045 07/08/1969 Missing Links — X Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2046 14/08/1969 Misdefined Dogop All clues are MP.
2047 21/08/1969 28 ac Mass 18 answers lose an abbreviation of an OLD TESTAMENT book on entry.
2048 28/08/1969 Red Herring Freca 12 clued lights are fish; ICHTHYOLOGICAL is unclued.
2049 04/09/1969 Enneads … IV Jackdaw All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares.
2050 11/09/1969 Noah’s Ark II Ad Grid is circular, with radial lights entered inwards and running from the innermost circle back to the outermost where necessary. Clues are PD, leading to names of creatures.
2051 18/09/1969 Misprints Apex Half the clues are MP; remaining lights are misprinted.
2052 25/09/1969 Pyramid Patience Leon Card puzzle representing a game of patience; 45 cards are dealt in a pyramid, with the remainder forming the stock. Products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 5) are clued for rows and diagonals. Exposed pairs of cards of the same suit totallin
2053 02/10/1969 In Other Words — II ffancy The initial letter of each clue determines the relationship of the light to the answer: A-D means an anagram, E-H an antonym, I-N a homophone, O-R no change and S-Z a synonym.
2054 09/10/1969 Toil and Trouble Babs Each clue is in fact two clues, one inside the other, leading to two words differing in two positions, e.g. TAILOR, TOILER, entered as T A/O I L O/E R. Order in the double squares is unimportant.
2055 16/10/1969 Quo Vadis? Jeffec The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge.
2056 23/10/1969 Centoddities Jac 16 rhyming couplets are given, each comprising two lines by different poets, of whom the first half of the first and the second half of the second form another (unclued) poet. Each line contains a letter-mixture of a light clued below the couplet.
2057 30/10/1969 Diverse Machiavelli Clues are in verse, each line being a DLM clue. Each light corresponds to a couplet, whose answers are of the same length; the light is formed by removing the third word formed by the middle of the two words, e.g. MUS(LIN GER)UND.
2058 06/11/1969 Text Books Phoenix Unclued lights are names of bibles.
2059 13/11/1969 Theme and Variations — VII Zander Theme-words APOLLO (PHOEBUS, HELIOS); ARMSTRONG (STORM, RANG); ALDRIN (AGE, RUN); COLLINS (CASSELL, DENT).
2060 20/11/1969 The Changes Rung Brad Unclued lights are old London telephone exchanges (and also the names of creative artists).
2061 27/11/1969 Nesting Birds — IV Peto There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel.
2062 04/12/1969 To and Fro Lascia Each clue contains a definition of the light, but belongs as a whole to another word, to be reversed to form another light elsewhere.
2063 11/12/1969 Round and Round Rhombus Numerical puzzle concerning 33 numbers, whose differences modulo 1057 are all different.
2064 18/12/1969 Puddings, Pies, etc. — II ffancy Most clued lights are entered in two parts; 8 lights are anagrams of the answers; 3 have the form CAP IN HAND leading to HACAPND. Certain diagonals spell A MERRY XMAS TO ALL SOLVERS. Some lights are unclued.
2065 25/12/1969 Bankrupt Ploutos All lights lose all occurrences of L, S, D on entry.
2066 01/01/1970 AnaCyph — V Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell ''CHARGE, CHEST
2067 08/01/1970 Musicale Twudge Each unclued across light is the title of a musical work, with the composer an unclued down light crossing it.
2068 15/01/1970 Dead Letters Egma 23 unclued lights are British towns without their initial letters; each letter from A to W is omitted once.
2069 22/01/1970 Cyclic fours and fives — III Topher Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For across lights, 18 clues lead to the light and an anagram, while the other 27 lead to the light and a misprint; f
2070 29/01/1970 Elliptic Trand Numerical puzzle with lights being co-ordinates of points on two ellipses, contained in the grid.
2071 05/02/1970 Subtraction — II Bart Each answer loses a letter or letters to the value of the diagram number on entry; certain diagonals spell 'I AM A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN AND LONG WORDS BOTHER ME'.
2072 12/02/1970 All Hearts (for C.H.H. who thought of it) Gong Either the heart, or the remainder after removing the heart, of each answer is entered; all lights are words, and each clue contains a one-word definition of its light.
2073 19/02/1970 Underwords and Overwords Sumydid 13 asterisked clues lead to two words, of which one (the overword) is obtained from the other (the underword) by advancing each letter one place in the alphabet, e.g. STAR, TUBS; either is to be entered.
2074 26/02/1970 Cook’s Tour — X Zander 14 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
2075 05/03/1970 Revised Versions Fudge Top row is SHOVING LEOPARD; many clues contain, and many lights are, spoonerisms.
2076 12/03/1970 1D 65A Babs Unclued lights apart from the title are COLLINGWOOD, HARDY (British captains); ROYAL SOVEREIGN, AFRICA, VICTORY (British ships); DUMANOIR, GRAVINA, VILLENEUVE (French captains); REDOUTABLE, SANTA ANA, BUCENTAIRE (sic), FOUGUEUX (French ships).
2077 19/03/1970 Au Pair Jac Most (unasterisked) clues have answers forming one half of a literary formula '... and ...', with the light being the other half, e.g. ANTONY leads to CLEOPATRA, PREJUDICE leads to PRIDE.
2078 26/03/1970 Zero One Rhombus Numerical puzzle with three grids: grid A contains eight 7-digit and eight 8-digit numbers made up of 0s and 1s; grids B and C interpret them in binary and denary respectively and clue them in random order in terms of their own lights.
2079 02/04/1970 Letters Latent (concealing Ximenes’ constant need) Apex Clues are LL, spelling (together with two unclued lights) 'SOME WORD THAT TEEMS WITH HIDDEN MEANING LIKE BASINGSTOKE'.
2080 09/04/1970 Nonsense Rhymes III Ramal Grid is Times-style; each clue is a nonsense rhyme of two lines, the first containing a definition of the light and the second an anagram of the symmetrically opposite light.
2081 16/04/1970 The first shall be last The last shall be first ... II Klick 17 answers contain the first or last name of a literary character, to be replaced by the other name on entry, e.g. GUNNER leads to BENER.
2082 23/04/1970 Ludo Game Mass Four corners (ROSE, SAXE, GOLD and VERT) contain five 8-letter and five 5-letter lights; circled squares spell the colours. 6-letter lights are entered jumbled along the path of a ludo disc and up the four home-runs.
2083 30/04/1970 Double-Take Jackdaw Answers to italicised clues lead somehow to the lights, e.g. HONOUR AMONG THIEVES leads to THHOINEOVUERS, SCATTER-BRAIN leads to BAIRN.
2084 07/05/1970 Snowflake Smada Numerical puzzle; grid comprises eight 6-pointed stars, each magic with the same magic constant. There are eight initial clues of the form x¦ = y¦ + z¦.
2085 14/05/1970 Highlands and Islands — III Eli Narrative, with 25 unclued lights the names of Scottish hills over 2,000 feet high, contained as letter-mixtures or hidden.
2086 21/05/1970 Jabberish Salamanca Positioning lights, in central rows and columns, provide co-ordinates for the remaining squares; some of the other lights are clued with initial squares given. Certain squares spell THIMBLES, CARE, FORKS, HOPE, RAILWAY-SHARE, SMILES, SOAP - needed for HUN
2087 28/05/1970 Pocket Money Systemat Numerical puzzle concerning three children's use of pocket money.
2088 04/06/1970 Ten to Eleven Klick The 10 unclued across lights, correctly paired with the 10 unclued down lights, give the members of the 1966 World Cup winning team.
2089 11/06/1970 Typical Misprints Apex Clues are MP; diagonals spell CHARLES DICKENS and PICKWICK PAPERS; unclued lights are CENTENARY, WARDLE, WELLER, SNODGRASS, WINKLE, TUPMAN.
2090 18/06/1970 Misprinted Quotation Dogop All lights are entered misprinted; correct letters, entered in isolated top right corner, spell 'WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED'.
2091 25/06/1970 Logogriphs — VII Topher Twelve 9-letter across lights can be rearranged into a 4- and a 5-letter word; clues define all three. Down lights at edges have clues defining them and three anagrams; other lights are entered along king's moves from given starting squares.
2092 02/07/1970 Two in One II Gong Each across light is one word inside another, e.g. G-LAND-ULAR; clues define the two words and contain a letter-mixture of the whole.
2093 09/07/1970 Nocturne Babs Narrative, with a poem in which the last three words of each line rhyme.
2094 16/07/1970 Crossword 2094 Jac Unclued lights are types of crosses.
2095 23/07/1970 Solitaire Leon Numerical puzzle; 49 cards are dealt in a 7 x 7 square. Clues are given to suits (A-F = H, G-M = C, N-S = S, T-Y = D) and ranks (AB = Ace, CD = 2, ..., YZ = King), the latter being jumbled. The four corner 4 x 4 squares are removed and the solitaire playe
2096 30/07/1970 Check Sabre All lights are entered in reverse.
2097 06/08/1970 Refracted and Reflected Lights Bart Grid is blank with co-ordinates; each clue is prefaced by the co-ordinates of an initial square, in an order which determines a direction of entry. However, before entry, the light may be reflected or rotated, the transformation involved being determined
2098 13/08/1970 With a hey and a ho Lascia Unclued lights are names given to wedding anniversaries, with appropriate grid numbers (consequently misplaced).
2099 20/08/1970 Perm all Five Sam Answers contain no repeated vowels; lights are formed by rearranging the consonants and the unused vowels, e.g. SPROUT leads to PIRATES, RUINED leads to ADORN.
2100 27/08/1970 Getting the ’ell out of Carl Marx Scorpio Clues lead to names of towns or counties, entered as TWO-LETTER INDEX MARKS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES ALLOTTED TO GREAT BRITAIN AND EIRE (spelled out in the grid).
2101 03/09/1970 Fun in the Alveary Egma Clues to ILLUSTRATION, PETTING PARTY, POCK-PUDDING, RESTORATION, SEA-SERPENT, ECLAIR, NOOSE, HE-MAN are the humorous definitions in Chambers'.
2102 10/09/1970 Quo Vadis? — II Jeffec The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge.
2103 17/09/1970 Metropolitan Klick Unclued lights are the Roman names of well-known towns.
2104 24/09/1970 Qbism Rhombus Numerical puzzle; lights are linear dimensions of 16 'qboids' with total edge length 4860 'qbits' and surface area 856204 square 'qbits'.
2105 01/10/1970 Farewell, Fair Cruelty Alexis The 11 unclued lights, with CRUELTY, are the names of the jury in Pilgrim's Progress.
2106 08/10/1970 Early! Freca 10 lights are names or abbreviations of names of COUNTIES (unclued).
2107 15/10/1970 Portmanteaux — VI Topher Across lights form a continuous chain of words, each overlapping the next by 2 letters; clues are grouped by light-length and given in cyclic order.
2108 22/10/1970 Heads, Bodies and Legs — II Gong Down lights are 12-letter, and are split into 3 equal parts and entered in 3 different columns (one part being entered in the correct column).
2109 29/10/1970 Lost Alphabet Babs The 26 across answers each lose a different letter on entry; each across clue contains a superfluous word defining a light elsewhere.
2110 05/11/1970 Chilepine Jac Unclued lights are monkeys (the Chile pine being the monkey-puzzle tree).
2111 12/11/1970 Literal ffancy In lights whose length is not given, W appears as UU.
2112 19/11/1970 From Age to Age … Leon Each square is split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. The upper triangles spell GEHAZI, LOT'S WIFE, ARGUS, TOM PIPER, CRISPIN, LAZARUS, ESAU, MARY MAGDALENE, GENTILES, BISHOP - all thing
2113 26/11/1970 The Nine Worthies Rhombus Numerical puzzle; each clue has the form xy ¦ z = w¦, where x, y, z are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits.
2114 03/12/1970 What’s the Matter? Lascia 14 lights are the names of chemical elements, clued only by grid numbers, most of which are consequently misplaced.
2115 10/12/1970 A Spot of Lunarisms Sumydid 9 normal clues are asterisked; all other clues or their lights are affected by a spoonerism.
2116 17/12/1970 Find the Lady — II Badger 30 clues in capitals are anagrams of a composer and one of his operatic heroines, the latter being the lights.
2117 24/12/1970 Full Board — II UtdtU Clues are DLM, associated with chesspieces; each light is formed by the consonants of the answer and is entered along successive moves of the chesspiece.
2118 31/12/1970 Many Moons Ago Egma Grid is circular, with radial lights interspersed with the months of the Jewish calendar (unclued); circumference lights are given in order for each circle but may start anywhere.
2119 07/01/1971 Key Words — II Peto Each letter is represented by A, B, C, D, E, F or G according to the remainder modulo 7 of its numerical value; unclued lights are GLORIANA - BRITTEN; ESPANA - CHABRIER; FAUST - GOUNOD; CARNAVAL - SCHUMANN; SALOME - STRAUSS; OBERON - WEBER.
2120 14/01/1971 Order in the Home Dogop Unclued lights are parts of the home of a monastic order.
2121 21/01/1971 The Listener Crossword Klick Answers to asterisked clues are entered as homophones in two parts, the first at the indicated location and the second elsewhere, e.g. CHAMPAGNE leads to SHAM + PANE.
2122 28/01/1971 Word Sums — VII Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
2123 04/02/1971 Snakes and Ladders — VI Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
2124 11/02/1971 All Hearts — II Gong Either the heart, or the remainder after removing the heart, of each answer is entered; all lights are words, and each clue contains a one-word definition of its light.
2125 18/02/1971 Quo Vadis? — III Jeffec The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge.
2126 25/02/1971 Common Ends Babs The 3-letter tail of each light is entered at an unclued location; each tail is used at least three times.
2127 04/03/1971 Alibi Jac Each light is an anagram of the clue answer; answers to asterisked clues, and all lights, are towns listed in the Oxford Atlas.
2128 11/03/1971 Indigestion Ploutos Each light has two internal adjacent letters transposed on entry.
2129 18/03/1971 Cathedral Gossip and the Sound of Nudity Sumydid Read diagonally boustrophedon, most of the grid spells A CURIOUS TALE AT ST. OGG'S WE HEAR - VICE A TROOP'S PADRE, GROGS. O SEE, NOOTE'S HEART UP LEAPED A NEW DITTY THEY'VE CHEEPED - NO GAS AND NO GAITERS, NO TOGS.
2130 25/03/1971 Alphabetical Inserts — XI Sam Grid is Times-style; each light is obtained from the answer by inserting a different letter in the position indicated, with each clue containing a superfluous word defining the light.
2131 01/04/1971 How Strange Twudge Unclued lights are names of conductors (title is an anagram of SARGENT, and 1 Across is FACE THE MUSIC).
2132 08/04/1971 Something in Common Gong 9 answers are translated into rhyming slang on entry, e.g. BOTTLE leads to ARISTOTLE.
2133 15/04/1971 Miss Play Theme Apex Most clues are MP; 4 lights are Playfair-coded; unclued lights are DAVID (COLEMAN, FROST) and JONATHAN (PEARMAIN, BALDWIN). KEY: Vexatiously
2134 22/04/1971 Harder Sums Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form (a + b) / c = n = (d + e) / f, where n is a single digit, given only for the first three equations, and a, b, c and d, e, f are each three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits.
2135 29/04/1971 Doubled Up Dogop Each light is formed by adding the numerical values of the letters in the answers to the two clues at the location, e.g. INCH + STEW = BHHE.
2136 06/05/1971 C Bart Each unclued down light, when reduced modulo 7 to the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, forms an important musical phrase (translated to the key of C) from a work suggested by a crossing across light.
2137 13/05/1971 No Reption Jeffec In lights and words in clues any repetitions of letters are omitted.
2138 20/05/1971 Alter Ego Jac A list of 24 Shakespearean characters is given, whose descriptions define the unclued lights.
2139 27/05/1971 Fourshortened Babs Babs' 100th puzzle; all down lights lose the consecutive letters CENT in some order.
2140 03/06/1971 Full Board — III UtdtU Clues are DLM, associated with chesspieces; each light is formed by the consonants of the answer and is entered along successive moves of the chesspiece.
2141 10/06/1971 Hour-Glass — IX Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'BUT WHATE'ER YOU ARE THAT IN THIS DESERT INACCESSIBLE, UNDER THE SHADE OF MELANCHOLY BOUGHS, LOSE AND NEGLECT THE CREEPING HOURS OF TIM
2142 17/06/1971 Pellian and Mélange Notlaw Numerical puzzle with most clues of the form x¦ - Py¦ = 1, with P prime and x, y minimal for P.
2143 24/06/1971 Letter for Letter Sumydid Four lights are encoded by placing the codeword above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing each letter by that above or below it. KEY: Vaulting-horse
2144 01/07/1971 It’s a Knock-out (or Downs in the dump) Apex Across clues are DLM; down lights are unclued, with their unchecked letters given.
2145 08/07/1971 Schizacrostic Dogop Grid has black squares and is in two identical halves; clues are in two groups, each containing half of those in each direction for each half of the grid. Initial letters of across lights spell 'AS FALSE AS DICERS' OATHS'.
2146 15/07/1971 Cardiagram Salamanca 49 clues each define two words (and contain a letter-mixture of one), one being the other with a letter removed. This letter is entered in the grid to spell I.E. THE QUEEN OF HEARTS ABOUT THE TWO, FIVE AND SEVEN OF SPADES (these three being missing when s
2147 22/07/1971 Friend and Foe Alexis Unclued lights across are girlfriends of James Bond, those down his enemies.
2148 29/07/1971 Superimposition — II ffancy Each row contains two interleaved words, one in red and one in black; some diagonal lights are clued (ignoring colours).
2149 05/08/1971 Quo Vadis? — IV Jeffec The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge.
2150 12/08/1971 Knight’s Tour Sabre Intersections of odd-numbered rows and columns give an 8 x 8 square, toured by a knight to spell DEDUCE THE UNCLUED LIGHT BY READING UP THE INITIAL LETTERS OF THE GIVEN CLUES; this gives BLACK OR WHITE SHE HAS FAR STRONGER CAPABILITIES FOR MOVING THAN THE
2151 19/08/1971 Verbarium 3 Proton Down lights are mainly entered jumbled; anagrams of the rows are given. The grid spells a stanza about Sir Walter Scott (b. 1771), whose works are referred to in the clues.
2152 26/08/1971 Autrefois Jac Unclued lights across are the months of the French revolutionary calendar, those down being the phenomena concerned, e.g. THERMIDOR leads to HEAT.
2153 02/09/1971 Half-Seas-Over Babs The twenty 2-letter annexes to the grid contain SE, EA or AS.
2154 09/09/1971 Double Dealing Scorpio Each across clue corresponds to a row, and leads to two different groups of two or more words, one starting at the left of the grid, the other somewhere else and cycling back to the start of the row, e.g. LANDMAN + DARING, GLAND + MANDARIN. Down lights ar
2155 16/09/1971 All Star Cast Gong 12 clues lacking definitions lead to the names of American states, the lights being their popular names, e.g. OHIO leads to BUCKEYE.
2156 23/09/1971 AnaCyph VI A Tale that is told Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'AND SHE SET DO
2157 30/09/1971 Splitting Pairs Brad Lights are clued in symmetrically opposite pairs; in each pair one clue is normal while the other merely contains a letter-mixture.
2158 07/10/1971 Misprints Apex Clues are MP; diagonals spell JOHN GALSWORTHY - THE FORSYTE SAGE; unclued lights are SOAMES, SWITHIN, BOSINNEY, JOLYON, FLEUR.
2159 14/10/1971 Acrostic Dogop Initial letters of across lights spell 'A SWEET DISORDER IN THE DRESS'.
2160 21/10/1971 Sixes and Sevens — VIII Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2161 28/10/1971 Armchair Detective — Murder! Salamanca A, B, C, D, E and F are involved in a murder. Lights with normal clues lose the victim (A); unclued lights are the professions of 5 of the 6 (ARCHITECT, BORER, CARPENTER, DECORATOR, FENCE). Three lights (EVADE, DEPOT, SHIELD) point to F; the 'Crimeword' I
2162 04/11/1971 Square Search — IV Jackdaw The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except J and Q) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (Q)UADRILATERAL is form
2163 11/11/1971 With Women and Power and War Alexis Unclued lights are famous horses.
2164 18/11/1971 Partners Jeffec Italicised clues lead to placenames which are one half of a Municipal Borough or Urban District, the lights being the other halves.
2165 25/11/1971 Double-Cross Jac Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube and has black squares; letters match along edges. In each face four 4-letter lights are entered diagonally; for these, odd-numbered clues lead to an 8- and a 4-letter word with the light being the difference, while even
2166 02/12/1971 Siamese Triplets Badger Each row contains 3 Shakespearean characters, overlapping e.g. FABIANCASSIUS; alternate columns have clues with lights entered letter by letter.
2167 09/12/1971 Splitting Pairs — II Brad Lights are clued in symmetrically opposite pairs; in each pair one clue is normal while the other merely contains a letter-mixture.
2168 16/12/1971 Three Four Time Rhombus Numerical puzzle with each clue of the form 3x + 4y = 7z, where x, y, z are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits; each clue is linked to another involving the reversals of the numbers.
2169 23/12/1971 Miss Play Theme Apex Clues are MP; 4 answers are Playfair-coded; unclued lights are PANTOMIME (CINDERELLA, ALADDIN) and DAME (EVANS, ASHCROFT). KEY: Boxing Day
2170 30/12/1971 Columnist Babs Narrative concerning a muck-raking journalist.
2171 06/01/1972 Cyclic Fours and Fives — IV Topher Lights in each row and column may run from the last square back to the first; each row and column contains three lights, clued cyclically. For one light in each row the true clue is a single word hidden in the apparent clue; in each column the clues are d
2172 13/01/1972 Numerology Klick Unclued lights, when pluralised, are related to their grid numbers, e.g. 39 Across is STEP.
2173 20/01/1972 Sea-piece Dogop Clues and lights concern the sea.
2174 27/01/1972 AnaCyph — VII Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'IF YOU SEE THE
2175 03/02/1972 Prime Ratios Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form a = b / c, with a prime and less than 60, b 5-digit and c 4-digit, with b, c containing the 9 positive digits.
2176 10/02/1972 All Hearts — III Gong Either the heart, or the remainder after removing the heart, of each answer is entered; all lights are words, and each clue contains a one-word definition of its light.
2177 17/02/1972 … and all that Bart Answers to asterisked clues have their letters replaced by their successors in the alphabet to form the lights, which are still words (the puzzle number may similarly be obtained from 1066).
2178 24/02/1972 A Mariner’s Burnt Water Alexis Unclued lights across and down may be preceded by BLUE and GREEN respectively.
2179 02/03/1972 Leading Lights Egma Unclued lights are terms used for leaders.
2180 09/03/1972 Topknot Jac Across lights, all words, are formed from the answers by 'tucking their heads into their bodies', e.g. DEMURRER leads to MURDERER, CARSE leads to SCARE.
2181 16/03/1972 Back Transfer Rhombus Numerical puzzle; each clue gives in ascending order three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, whose product also contains these 9 digits.
2182 23/03/1972 Not always true sons ffancy Unclued lights are all words lacking 'MAC-' initially, but only the down lights have it as a prefix, e.g. DONALD (Down), CLESFIELD (Across).
2183 30/03/1972 Nesting Birds — V Peto There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel.
2184 06/04/1972 Diametricode — VII Babs 24 circled perimeter and central squares contain the alphabet (except J and Q); each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues are either normal with encoded lights or encoded with normal lights.
2185 13/04/1972 Head-Hunting — X Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'CARVE A LITTLE BIT OFF THE TOP FOR ME'.
2186 20/04/1972 Word Sums — VIII Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
2187 27/04/1972 Where the Place? Jeffec 22 lights are placenames mentioned in Shakespeare, clued in random order by quotations.
2188 04/05/1972 In Reverse Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form xX + yY = (x + y)Z, where X, Y, Z are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits; each clue is paired with another involving the reversals of X, Y, Z.
2189 11/05/1972 Alphabetical Cocktail — VII Sam All 26 across answers have an odd number of letters; the centres (all different) are removed and an anagram of the remainder entered (the initials of these all being different as well).
2190 18/05/1972 Olla Podrida — II Klick Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. BROKEN PROMISE leads to IMPOSER.
2191 25/05/1972 Cturenced Parts Bart All across answers contain IN and are entered as in the title, e.g. PIN-UP leads to UPP.
2192 01/06/1972 Abecedarium Dogop Asterisked squares in rows and columns numbered 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13 form a 5 x 5 square containing the letters of the alphabet except J; the centre is isolated and the 13-letter lights in the first and last columns are unclued.
2193 08/06/1972 Dicatacrypt — II Jac Each down answer is interpreted literally to form the light (always a word), e.g. GRANDAM leads to GRAM, MONASTERY leads to MASTERY.
2194 15/06/1972 N on Si ns — II ffancy Each answer loses one letter to form the light, which is still a word; subsidiary indications are to the lights.
2195 22/06/1972 Sl-o-o-o-g Rhombus Numerical puzzle; in each of the 7 clues, A, B, C are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, with (possibly non-distinct) 'anagrams' a, b, c, such that the products Ab, Bc, Ca each contain three consecutive digits, to be removed to
2196 29/06/1972 In Memoriam My best friend is… Apex Clues are LL, spelling '... HE WHO TAKES MY MIND TO THE GARDEN OF TORMENT' (puzzle marks the anniversary of Ximenes' death).
2197 06/07/1972 Uniformed Guides Peto Italicised clues are 'guides' to the answers, from which the suffix '-IFORM' is removed to form the lights.
2198 13/07/1972 Roman Style — III Babs Answers are entered in Roman numerals, e.g. ZEALOUS leads to XXVIVIXIIXVXXIXIX.
2199 20/07/1972 Titbits Alexis Theme and variations with theme-words types of TIT: WILLOW (THOMAS, TURNER); GREAT (ALFRED, ABBAS); BLUE (GOOSE, TAIL); COAL (CARRY, NEWCASTLE); MARSH (HARRIER, WARBLER).
2200 27/07/1972 Anacyph — VIII Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'I FOUND ME IN
2201 03/08/1972 Hide and Seek Salamanca Across clues are pairs of lines of a poem; the first contains a plural definition leading to two words, the second defines a word hidden between the two, to be removed to form the light, e.g. 'beaches', 'pause' lead to SHO(RE ST)RAND.
2202 10/08/1972 Take-out Doubles Sam Each answer contains a repeated part (between 2 and 5 letters in length); both parts are removed to form the light, e.g. MI(NGLE)-MA(NGLE).
2203 17/08/1972 Literally Rhombus Numerical puzzle; lights, grouped by length, have clues (in random order) involving their digits, e.g. abc = a¦ + b¦ + c¦, abcdefgh = (abcd + efgh)¦.
2204 24/08/1972 GBS = 132 Jeffec 15 lights are venues of modern Olympic Games (GBS = gold, bronze, silver); 5 clues lacking definitions give anagrams of them in threesomes.
2205 31/08/1972 Give and Take Bart To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed.
2206 07/09/1972 Head-Wind Jac Each across answer is entered with its initial letter encoded using a simple substitution cipher, forming another word. Down lights involving encoded letters have clues referring to both original and encoded versions (the latter by definition only).
2207 14/09/1972 Before and After X Apex Unclued lights are LABOUR (WILSON, JENKINS, CALLAGHAN, STEWART, SHORT) and TORY (HEATH, MACLEOD, MAUDLING, DOUGLAS-HOME, THATCHER) - before and after the General Election.
2208 21/09/1972 1/1½ Leon Each square is split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. The upper triangles spell 11 surnames of EXECUTIONERS, with the letters SURE EXIT ONCE before and after the names (a 'thirteenpenceh
2209 28/09/1972 Ten Types of Ambiguity Egma 10 unclued lights are type-faces.
2210 05/10/1972 Down the ladder rung by rung Rhombus Numerical puzzle; clues are of the form AB = a.b, where A, B, a, b are 3-digit numbers, AB denotes juxtaposition, and each side contains 6 distinct digits (all positive). The second half of each 'rung' is the first half of the next (which would be B
2211 12/10/1972 Arabic Style — III Babs Lights are entered numerically, with one digit per square, e.g. BIFORM leads to 296151813.
2212 19/10/1972 Word Ladder Sumydid Lights are rungs, sometimes unclued, of a 6-letter word-ladder in which each rung has five letters in common with the next.
2213 26/10/1972 Split two ways Jeffec Each answer is split between two lights, across (numbered) and down; half the answers are entered across and then down, the other half up and then back.
2214 02/11/1972 Catherine Wheel Salamanca Grid is circular; middle circle reads NOT TO BE HELD IN THE HAND. ATLAS and TITAN are rockets, FAX and CEREUS Roman candles, FAGGOTS and RAGS Guys, and PEARCING and PEALING jumping crackers.
2215 09/11/1972 Give and Take — II Bart To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Certain diagonals spell 'GETTING AND SPENDING WE LAY WASTE OUR POWERS'.
2216 16/11/1972 A. P. Trios Jasan Numerical puzzle; each clue gives three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits and in arithmetic progression.
2217 23/11/1972 Seven-a-Side Trand Numerical puzzle; each 5-digit number with digits chosen from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 is associated through a weighted digital sum (modulo 7) with a day of the week. Central 5 x 5 square has 13 zeroes already entered; perimeter has 12 days of the week alre
2218 30/11/1972 Two’s ------- (or ‘What the Critics might have said’) Apex Diagonals spell 'I'M NOT GETTING MARRIED TODAY' from COMPANY by SONDHEIM (both unclued).
2219 07/12/1972 Topped and Tailed Klick Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.
2220 14/12/1972 Arcades Ambo Politicaster Unclued lights are Oxbridge colleges.
2221 21/12/1972 Noel ffancy All Ls are omitted on entry; certain diagonals spell WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
2222 28/12/1972 Justyn Print — III Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Enthusiast' leads to IGOR BEAVER.
2223 04/01/1973 Heads and Tails II Babs Perimeter lights are an endless chain of 6-letter words with 3-letter overlaps; other lights have their heads entered where stated and their (3-letter) tails elsewhere.
2224 11/01/1973 In the looking glass Rhombus Numerical puzzle; each clue gives three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits such that the sum of their squares is equal to that of their reversals.
2225 18/01/1973 Lapis Philosophicus Phoenix 12 unclued lights are philosophers (and XANTIPPE, wife of Socrates) with initial letters B, D, F, H, J, L, N, P, R, T, V, X - the thirteenth to complete the set is ZENO, whose final letter is entered in a separate square.
2226 25/01/1973 To a Word Lark Freca Each asterisked clue defines two verbs, one weak and one strong; the light is the 'new' past tense of the weak verb, following the example of the strong, e.g. TRY, FLY lead to TREW.
2227 01/02/1973 Sixes and Sevens Salamanca Answers to clues are 6- and 7-letter words, which gain or lose a letter to form the light, entered at another location where the same letter is involved.
2228 08/02/1973 Count me out Mass 12 across and 12 down answers lose MASS on entry.
2229 15/02/1973 Fractionary — III UtdtU Numerical puzzle; lights are the repetends of fractions with prime denominators in varying bases up to 10.
2230 22/02/1973 Fractured French Fudge 'English' clues are normal; 'French' clues lead to common French words or phrases, but the definitions are 'in the spirit of Fractured French', e.g. 'Charger' leads to HORS DE COMBAT.
2231 01/03/1973 Pandore as Boks II Proton Across clues lead to words which, followed by AS and the light, form homophones of phrases, e.g. JUDE leads to HOLE, BEG leads to OPERA.
2232 08/03/1973 Refracted and Reflected Lights II Bart Grid is blank with co-ordinates; each clue is prefaced by the co-ordinates of an initial square, in an order which determines a direction of entry. However, before entry, the light may be reflected or rotated, the transformation involved being determined
2233 15/03/1973 ________ Apex There are 5 clue types, LL (spelling the title), PD, DLM, MP and Right and Left.
2234 22/03/1973 An Alliterative Acrostic Dogop Clues are mainly alliterative; initial letters of across lights spell 'SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE'.
2235 29/03/1973 Double Nine Rhombus Numerical puzzle; each clue concerns a permutation of the 9 positive digits, and leads to three 3-digit numbers containing them.
2236 05/04/1973 Square Search V Jackdaw The 6 'Head-lights', clued normally, comprise the alphabet (except J and Q) and head the rows and columns; each other clue, headed by a letter, leads to a 3-, a 4- and a 5-letter word, and contains the letters in sequence. Finally, (J)OLLIFICATION is form
2237 12/04/1973 A Limerickal History of the ‘Listener’ Crossword Anon 7 limericks form a narrative with many Listener setters as lights. Other answers have two consecutive letters replaced by a third on entry (definitions refer to the answers, subsidiary indications the lights); the letters concerned spell A CROSSWORD MAN C
2238 19/04/1973 Bridging the Gap Babs Latin narrative concerning the game of 'PONS'.
2239 26/04/1973 Cook’s Tour — XI Zander 16 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
2240 03/05/1973 Wicked Capitalism Bart Clues are in three groups. The 26 in set A lead to answers whose initial letters are all different and must be changed to form the lights (with the new initial letters also all different); the 26 in set B each contain a superfluous word defining a set A l
2241 10/05/1973 Chop and Change II Brad Half the lights are anagrams of the answers, the others part of the answers. Supplementary (mainly one-word) clues are given in alphabetical order, defining the lights.
2242 17/05/1973 Two in One Sabre Each square may contain one or two letters; in squares containing two, they may be taken in either order.
2243 24/05/1973 Nothing Barred Dogop Grid is blank with clues across and down given in correct order; across lights lose the letters of the alphabet in sequence.
2244 31/05/1973 Enneads V Jackdaw All lights are 9-letter, entered in and around their numbered squares.
2245 07/06/1973 Body-Snatching Mass 30 answers lose parts of the body to form the lights, e.g. CARMAGNOLE leads to CAGNOLE.
2246 14/06/1973 Link Module Rhombus Numerical puzzle; lights, all 3-digit, form a chain in which each is obtained from its predecessor by alternately permuting the digits and taking the residues modulo 7, 11 and 13.
2247 21/06/1973 Set to open the — Apex Clues concern tennis; diagonals (including extra central 2 x 2 square) spell WIMBLEDON LAWN TENNIS FORTNIGHT.
2248 28/06/1973 The Listener Crossword II Klick Answers to asterisked clues are entered as homophones in two parts, the first at the indicated location and the second elsewhere, e.g. AIRSACS leads to EYRE + SAXE.
2249 05/07/1973 Missing Links — XI Zander 15 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2250 12/07/1973 This is it! Chanakya Unclued lights are CROSSWORD PUZZLE, SEX APPEAL, CLEW, DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN, EXCLAMATION MARK, TWO DOWN, FOUR-LETTER WORD, THE LISTENER, NE PLUS ULTRA.
2251 19/07/1973 Lot 46 — Plaque d’Immatriculation Twudge Unclued lights are French dTpartements, each clued by its own number (Lot = 46), most of which are necessarily misplaced.
2252 26/07/1973 Quo Vadis? — V Jeffec The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge.
2253 02/08/1973 Recommended Accommodation Babs 20 clues lead to two answers differing by one letter; 10 squares are thus affected. In these squares the letters CHILDREN TV are inadmissible.
2254 09/08/1973 Harbour Lights Dogop All clues, and some lights, have a nautical connection.
2255 16/08/1973 Miss Printer’s Devilry Apex Among lights of a given length, half the clues are MP, the rest PD.
2256 23/08/1973 Antigone and Creon Peto 8 answers lose ANTI and 7 gain CRE initially; all lights are still words.
2257 30/08/1973 Three Prime Nine Slavko Numerical puzzle; clues are equations of the form x + y + z = 9w, where x, y, z, w are 3-digit primes, the first three containing the 9 positive digits.
2258 06/09/1973 Overlaps III Babs 5 rows and 5 columns comprise three 7-letter words with 3-letter overlaps, e.g. ALLEGRIEVERMINY; clues to these are run together.
2259 13/09/1973 Sixes and Sevens — IX Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2260 20/09/1973 Mark VIII Jeffec 8 isolated squares have their contents spelt out diagonally or laterally leading from or to them: PILCROW, SECTION, ASTERISM, DIESIS, OBELUS, ASTERISK, INDEX, PARALLEL.
2261 27/09/1973 Simply Divine ffancy Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-MANCY' (also unclued).
2262 04/10/1973 Variations on a Theme III Alexis Theme-words ACROSS (VICTORIA, KING'S, GREEK; -PATCH, -EYED, -GARTERED) and DOWN (UPSIDE, EIDER, TUMBLE; -GYVED, -SITTING, -HEARTED); all are entered in the appropriate direction.
2263 11/10/1973 Directions Enclosed Salamanca Each line of verse is a double DLM clue to a word and a 'direction', which when applied to the word produces the light, e.g. PIOY, DROPSY lead to PIO, RECOVERABLE, ESTOPS lead to RPCOVPABLP.
2264 18/10/1973 Displaced Persons III Peto Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
2265 25/10/1973 Abecedarian Jigsaw Dogop Clues are presented in alphabetical order of light, and the initial letter of each light is given; each letter of the alphabet is used at least once initially.
2266 01/11/1973 Firework Display Salamanca Each column (except the centre, which spells A PENNY FOR THE GUY) has a triple DLM clue leading to a 6-, a 5- and a 4-letter word, entered letter by letter; across lights, which run from row to row, are fireworks.
2267 08/11/1973 We give thee greeting Apex Clues are LL, spelling 'BRIGHTLY DAWNS OUR WEDDING DAY: JOYOUS HOUR'.
2268 15/11/1973 All change Alexis Theme-words PADDINGTON (POOH, URSA); MARYLEBONE (BONER, MEALY); VICTORIA (MARY, ANNE); WATERLOO (MOSCOW, NILE); EUSTON (NEREUS, TONNER).
2269 22/11/1973 Calloway Strikes Again! Leon 19 unclued lights are halves of journalistic clichTs, the other halves of which are given in random order.
2270 29/11/1973 Schizogrammata ffancy There are two identical grids. The alphabet is divided into two categories (letters with and without curves) and each light is split between the two grids accordingly. Clues are normal or DLM according as the light begins in the first or second grid.
2271 06/12/1973 Key Words 3 Peto Each letter is represented by A, B, C, D, E, F or G according to the remainder modulo 7 of its numerical value; unclued lights are VESPRI SICILIANI - VERDI; LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - MOZART; ARIADNE AUF NAXOS - STRAUSS; IL TURCO IN ITALIA - ROSSINI.
2272 13/12/1973 3-Cube Squares Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form Z¦ = w¦ + x¦ + y¦.
2273 20/12/1973 Christmas Crackery — V Zander Clues are DLM in the form of jokes, riddles, limericks; certain diagonals spell MAY CORDIAL SENTIMENTS ENSURE A GAY NOEL.
2274 27/12/1973 Heads or Tails Babs Twelve 8-letter lights, of the form ...IS..., protrude 5 squares above or below the grid; each provides a code for one of the 6-letter lights, e.g. HIBISCUS means that EXCUSE leads to EXHIBE.
2275 03/01/1974 The First shall be last the Last shall be first III Klick 17 answers contain the first or last name of a 'celebrity', which must be replaced by his or her other name, e.g. DISANCHOR leads to DIPANZAR.
2276 10/01/1974 OWWW! Sal & Sim Clued lights are entered coded, by moving each letter forward in the alphabet the number of places given by its position in the words, e.g. UNCLAD leads to VPFPFJ; title is thus NUTS, and defines the unclued (and uncoded) lights.
2277 17/01/1974 Parmultumvo Jeffec Title is MULTUM IN PARVO; unclued lights are English towns or villages entered in this way, e.g. AR-HENLEY-DEN.
2278 24/01/1974 Double Acrostic Dogop Initial and final letters of across lights spell AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE and ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE respectively.
2279 31/01/1974 Outnumbered Sam All answers lose a number (in one case, two numbers) on entry, e.g. HEIGHTEN leads to HEN.
2280 07/02/1974 O Dirctio Salamanca All instances of N, E, W, S have been removed from clues and lights. Shaded diagonals (reconstituted) read 'BY INDIRECTIONS FIND DIRECTIONS OUT' and 'I KNOW NO SOUTH, NO NORTH, NO EAST, NO WEST'.
2281 14/02/1974 Interpolation — II Egma Each light is the centre of 3 consecutive headwords in Chambers' 1972 Dictionary; the other two are clued, one by definition and the other by subsidiary indication.
2282 21/02/1974 Variations on a Theme — IV Alexis Theme-words PALACE (FALKLAND, HOLYROOD); SPURS (REINS, CROP); ARSENAL (CARSE, ENALLAGE); ORIENT (GRACIOUS, LIGHT); CHELSEA (KINGS, ROAD).
2283 28/02/1974 Same Again, Please! — IV Peto 24 answers form 12 pairs, each pair having in common certain consectuive letters which are to be removed on entry (leaving proper words) and rearranged to form a word entered in an annex to the grid, e.g. NE(CKTI)E, SI(CKTI)RED lead to TICKTICK.
2284 07/03/1974 Three in One Babs Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.
2285 14/03/1974 Qbes Rhombus Numerical puzzle; six digits (3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9) and thirty-two 2-digit numbers are given, with the latter to be arranged into eight foursomes the sums of whose cubes are 6-digit numbers containing the digits given.
2286 21/03/1974 Quo Vadis? — VI Jeffec The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge.
2287 28/03/1974 Miss Printer’s Devilry Theme Apex Unclued lights are ZANDER, HEAD-HUNTING, JUSTYN PRINT, COOK'S TOUR, HOUR-GLASS (ROBINS being clued normally); other lights have DLM or MP clues.
2288 04/04/1974 ‘Joys in another’s—’ Sam Title continues '... loss of ease'; the only vowel appearing in the answers is E, and is omitted everywhere on entry.
2289 11/04/1974 A Paschal Crossword Party, thrown … Dogop Unclued lights EASTER EGG and VERNAL EQUINOX form a central cross; several Listener setters are among the lights.
2290 18/04/1974 Prime Trios Rhombus Numerical puzzle involving six sets of three 3-digit primes containing the 9 positive digits, given in three pairs of sets: in the first pair the sums are equal; in the second the sums of the squares are equal; in the third the sums of the products are eq
2291 25/04/1974 Heads and Tails III Babs Perimeter lights are an endless chain of 6-letter words (8 clockwise and 8 anticlockwise) with 3-letter overlaps; other lights have their heads entered where stated and their (3-letter) tails elsewhere.
2292 02/05/1974 Give and Take III Bart To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Diagonals spell 'THE LITTLE MORE AND HOW MUCH IT IS, AND THE LITTLE LESS, AND WHAT WORLDS AWAY!'
2293 09/05/1974 Correspondence Course Algol Unclued lights are stations on the PARIS METRO.
2294 16/05/1974 Small Change Klick Each light is formed from the answer either by transposing two letters or by moving one letter.
2295 23/05/1974 Favous Plexus Lascia Grid is a lattice of equilateral triangles; lights are 6-letter, entered in 6 triangles forming a hexagon. Perimeter may be arranged to form A STRUCTURE OF CELLS IN WHICH BEES PUT HONEY.
2296 30/05/1974 Up to Scratch Jeffec Unclued lights form MOHS'S SCALE: TALC, GYPSUM, CALCITE, FLUORITE, APATITE, ORTHOCLASE, QUARTZ, TOPAZ, CORUNDUM, DIAMOND.
2297 06/06/1974 1-2-X Mass Unclued lights are 5 homes (COTTAGE, HOUSE, HOVEL, MANOR, VILLA), 5 aways (ABSENT, DISTANT, LEAVE, LEFT, OUT) and 5 draws (ATTRACT, GLANCE, INHALE, LENGTHEN, UNSHEATHE).
2298 13/06/1974 Who’s who? (or Six Characters in Search of an Author) Adam Unclued lights are names and titular descriptions of characters from Sherlock Holmes short stories.
2299 20/06/1974 Hearless Salamanca Across clues are paired anagrams of birds, to be entered without their central letters; these spell out 6 more heartless birds, whose hearts spell a heartless seventh. Down lights are jumbled and subsidiary indications are to the jumbled forms.
2300 27/06/1974 fonetik Ad All answers are entered phonetically as in Chambers' 1972 Dictionary.
2301 04/07/1974 In League Egma Unclued lights are nicknames of football league clubs,
2302 11/07/1974 Printer’s Pranks Dogop Across clues are PD; down clues are MP.
2303 18/07/1974 An hour to play Ploutos Title continues '... and the last mean in'; 11 lights are the 'last men' of the clued answers, e.g. ENGLISH leads to HEREWARD.
2304 25/07/1974 4-41, 1-50 Bart The 26 across answers each lose both their initial letters (all different) and their final letters (also all different).
2305 01/08/1974 Face to face — III Jeffec Grid is the net of a cube and has black squares; all lights are 7-letter, and letters agree at edges.
2306 08/08/1974 The French connection Klick Unclued lights are English words which when paired appropriately and separated by French connectives form French phrases (and CHESTER-le-STREET).
2307 15/08/1974 Missing-Links Patience Leon Card puzzle; the 52 cards are laid out in 7 rows with each row containing one face-down (a 'missing link'). Clues are given to sequences of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) around certain points. The object is to remove pairs of the same colou
2308 22/08/1974 Six before seven Brym 7 unclued across lights are basic SI units; 6 unclued down lights, appropriately numbered, are prefixes indicating powers of ten (1 = DECA, 2 = HECTO, 3 = KILO, 6 = MEGA, 9 = GIGA, 12 = TERA).
2309 29/08/1974 Take two or three Adam Numerical puzzle; clues are triples of numbers such that the sum of any two, or of all three, is a perfect square.
2310 05/09/1974 Call my bluff Apex There are 6 lights of each length: 2 are clued normally, but definitions to the other 4 have been rearranged.
2311 12/09/1974 Diametricode VIII Babs Unchecked perimeter squares contain the alphabet; each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues are either normal with encoded lights or encoded with normal lights.
2312 19/09/1974 Cross-mots Ad Across clues and lights are in English; those down are in French.
2313 26/09/1974 Snakes and ladders Egma 9 snakes and 4 ladders are shown in the otherwise blank grid; two players, spelling out words, move as in the game, descending snakes (ANACONDA, BOA, KRAIT, ASP, SEPS, VIPER - the last three each occurring twice) and ascending ladders (ASCENT, ESCALATOR,
2314 03/10/1974 Symphonic theme and variations Bart Theme-words CECILY (DENISE, EDWINA); GERTRUDE (LAERTES, OSRIC); MAGDALEN (ORIEL, BRASENOSE); MARGARET (PEARL, NACRE); ROSALYS (DILYS, GLADYS) - 'five sweet symphonies' from 'The Blessed Damozel'.
2315 10/10/1974 In other words Salamanca Half the lights are clued with a number of misprints; in each clue the correct forms of the misprints form an anagram of one of the unclued lights.
2316 17/10/1974 XXXX Jac Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube and has black squares; letters match along edges. In each face four 4-letter lights are entered diagonally; clues lead to two 8-letter words with the light being common to both. Finally the central letters of the four n
2317 24/10/1974 Cyclic permutations Politicaster Each light is a cyclic permutation of the answer (and is rarely a word).
2318 31/10/1974 Six-all Dogop Each clue has 6 words, each light 6 letters.
2319 07/11/1974 Butterfly Patience Leon Card puzzle; the 52 cards are laid out in 'butterfly' formation. Clues are given to products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) in columns and diagonals. The object is to remove pairs totalling 13 (Kings being removed singly).
2320 14/11/1974 Space-saver III Babs Each answer is entered in half as many squares as the word has letters, e.g. KIE-KIE leads to K I E, PIPPIN leads to P I P/N.
2321 21/11/1974 A. P. Trios II Jasan Numerical puzzle; each clue gives three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits and in arithmetic progression.
2322 28/11/1974 Time to throw a Party Apex Clues are LL, spelling BIRTHDAY CENTENARY OF WINSTON S. CHURCHILL; clues are all thematic.
2323 05/12/1974 Two-sided addition Sabre There are two identical grids; at each location, a double clue leads to two words to be 'added' to form the lights, e.g. COWED + BROTH become CRWTH + BOOED.
2324 12/12/1974 Crossbird Eli Grid covers a map of Britain; narrative with unclued lights names of birds, with initial squares approximately in areas where they may be found (except in one case). Lights run in four directions.
2325 19/12/1974 Miss Play the fool (all very seasonal) Apex 4 lights are Playfair-coded; other clues are MP; theme-words CHRISTMAS (HOLLY, MISTLETOE) and PUDDING (CAKE, GOOSE). KEY: Brazil nuts
2325A 19/12/1974 Pentomino jigsaw Ad The grid was a jigsaw, to be deduced, of 18 pentominoes, which formed a full set of distinct shapes plus mirror images of the asymmetric ones. Clues were given for the 5-letter words in each pentomino, as well as across words that appeared when the jigsaw was correctly completed. One pentomino was already placed in the grid. All clue answers were connected with sound or visual entertainment.
2326 02/01/1975 Revised version Babs Narrative based on 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'.
2327 09/01/1975 Miscues Adam 20 lights, clued by one-line quotations from Shakespearean plays, are formed as an anagram of the name of the speaker together with the next word he or she says.
2328 16/01/1975 Triadagrid Jac In 11 cases the answer to the clue is a member of a trio; one of the other two is entered where indicated, and the third is an unclued light.
2329 23/01/1975 Clueless crossnumber — a numerical jigsaw Philipontes Numerical puzzle; lights, all 3-digit numbers, are given and must be fitted into the grid.
2330 30/01/1975 Odd job men Mog Unclued lights are from 'The CLUB of QUEER TRADES' by G.K. CHESTERTON.
2331 06/02/1975 Electradition Badger Unclued lights are actors.
2332 13/02/1975 Missing letter Sabre Answers with an even number of letters are entered with their first half jumbled; initial letters of these lights spell EZRA CHAPTER SEVEN VERSE TWENTY-ONE, which contains all the alphabet except J (to be entered in the isolated central square).
2333 20/02/1975 Fonetik II Ad All answers are entered phonetically as in Chambers' 1972 Dictionary.
2334 27/02/1975 Miss Spot the theme Apex 12 clues are MP; their answers, together with an unclued light, contain the alphabet in second and penultimate letters: WALLABA, SCALADE, SERFS, AGHA, FIJI, SKEWBALD, IMPORTANT, GOOPY, EQUERRY, OSTROGOTH, GUAVA, TWIXT, NYANZA.
2335 06/03/1975 General exodus Babs Unclued lights across and down and military commanders and the places where they died, with each corresponding pair intersecting.
2336 13/03/1975 On reflection Jago Clues are DLM; symmetrically opposite lights read in opposite directions. Unclued lights are owners of magic mirrors.
2337 27/03/1975 Theme and Variations — VIII Zander Theme-words FIRE (SACK, SHOOT); AIR (HEIR, ERE); EARTH (SETT, DREY); WATER (CONISTON, DERWENT).
2338 03/04/1975 Hunt the gowk Salamanca Each clue has two subsidiary indications, leading to two spellings of the same word; middle row (unchecked) reads APRIL FOOL.
2339 10/04/1975 Glover-Kind’s favourite place ffancy Unclued lights can be preceded by 'SEA-'.
2340 24/04/1975 Reason it out Nibor From each clue one letter has been removed, and must be added to the answer somewhere to form the light; these letters are ETAONISR (the beginning of the sequence of letter usage in English) repeated 6 times.
2341 01/05/1975 Magic cube Vatsayana Numerical puzzle; grid is a 3 x 3 x 3 cube with faces semi-magic and internal squares fully magic.
2342 08/05/1975 Quo Vadis? — VII Jeffec The initial square of each light is given, but it may run in any of four directions, and if it meets an edge of the grid it can continue from the opposite edge.
2343 22/05/1975 Who’s who in the theatre Fudge 19 lettered clues lead to Shakespearean characters; the lights are aliases they adopted.
2344 29/05/1975 Something tossed up to Babs Politicaster Copying Babs' puzzle no. 1523, each light is entered with a pair of adjacent letters transposed; certain diagonals spell ''TIS HARD TO SETTLE ORDER ONCE AGAIN'.
2345 05/06/1975 The fish is off Sam All across answers, and two down, are entered with a fish removed.
2346 19/06/1975 Keywords Jago 10 asterisked clues are double DLM, leading to the light and its encoded form (replacing ABCDEF...Z by QWERTY...M); all other lights are entered encoded.
2347 26/06/1975 Crossword and Puzzle Sabre All lights are entered misprinted, with half the clues indicating the misprinted form. Each of the sixteen 3 x 3 squares into which the grid may be divided contains a jumbled 9-letter word; when these are written in an array, their initial and final lette
2348 03/07/1975 He is no longer Apex Grid represents a Memorial, in two (nearly) equal parts; clues are paired, with those down being LL, spelling '... ALIVE THERE IS A GREAT DEAL TO BE SAID FOR BEING DEAD' by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY (b. 1875, unclued central row).
2349 17/07/1975 Overlaps V Babs Six chains of eight 6-letter words with 3-letter overlaps run from the top left corner to the bottom right.
2350 24/07/1975 Araucaria imbricata Peto 16 lights are monkeys and appear as letter-mixtures in their clues (which do not otherwise indicate them).
2351 31/07/1975 Tricubicals Rhombus Numerical puzzle; clues are of the form A, B, C, a, b, c, where both A, B, C and a, b, c are three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, the sums of whose cubes are equal and also contain the 9 positive digits.
2352 14/08/1975 Prize selection Klick 15 unclued lights are titles of novels (possible selections for those who win book tokens as prizes).
2353 21/08/1975 Diamond flush Salamanca In each light at least one square must contain two letters; order in these squares is flexible, but when written correctly they spell famous dogs.
2354 28/08/1975 Where the place? — II Jeffec 22 lights are placenames mentioned in Shakespeare, clued in random order by quotations.
2355 11/09/1975 Arosti Merlin Across clues are LL, with omissions each occurring twice, spelling LISTENER CROSSWORDS.
2356 18/09/1975 A la carte Egma Grid is circular with jumbled radial 5-letter lights; one circle contains the alphabet in order, while the outermost circle contains the 13 card denominations in French.
2357 25/09/1975 Justyn Print — IV Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Continental Breakfast' leads to ROLAND BUTTER.
2358 09/10/1975 One-way theme Ram In each across clue the letters of the light are concealed according to some systematic rule; each rule is used twice.
2359 16/10/1975 Nesting birds — VI Peto There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel.
2360 23/10/1975 All aboard Jago Clues, unnumbered, are given in the order of numbers on a dartboard; unclued lights are BULLSEYE, TREBLE, DOUBLE, DARTS.
2361 06/11/1975 Orienteering Salamanca Grid is blank with co-ordinates given by letter-pairs. Clues are in groups, preceded by one in capital letters whose solution, taken in pairs, provides the locations for the initial letters of the lights.
2362 13/11/1975 Two square prime Slavko Numerical puzzle with clues of the form x + y = z with x, y squares and z prime. Some locations are given; the remainder are to be deduced.
2363 20/11/1975 Vade mecum Mog Theme-words (past and present editors of Chambers') DAVIDSON (NATHAN, SOLOMON); GEDDIE (LUCE, LANGUISH); DICKIE (DICK, RICK); MACDONALD (ASQUITH, MACMILLAN).
2364 04/12/1975 Guinean Egma Unclued lights are cyclic permutations of snakes (title is really ANGUINE).
2365 11/12/1975 Jane Babs Italicised clues all relate Jane Austen (b. 16/12/1775); 6 lead to first names of young ladies in her novels, 6 to words she used in a sense now archaic, and 17 to words with her spelling.
2366 18/12/1975 Twins Sabre Unclued lights are anagrams of some of the clued lights; no clues involve anagrams.
2367 25/12/1975 A merry TV Xmas house party Apex Down clues are LL, spelling (with the central row of the grid) I MUST TAKE ENDLESS TIME WITH XMAS CRACKERS (Ximenes prizewinning clue to 26 Down, MAXIMIST).
2368 08/01/1976 Cook’s tour — XII Zander 13 items of food or drink are clued in italics by the names of the regions in which they are normally found.
2369 15/01/1976 Variations on a theme — V Alexis Theme-words ENCHANTERS (MEDEA, CIRCE, PROSPERO); DEADLY (ALLINGHAM, MARSH, CARR); BLACK (ART, DEATH, MARIA) - all NIGHTSHADEs.
2370 29/01/1976 Weather report Salamanca Grid covers map of England; clues are DLM in paragraphs. 12 crossing pairs of lights contain names of weather symbols, to be entered symbolically.
2371 05/02/1976 Topped and tailed — II Klick Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.
2372 12/02/1976 Group effort Smokey Clues are grouped according to light-length, given in alphabetical order of light within each group.
2373 26/02/1976 Out of the Ark Sam Each across answer loses an animal to form the light.
2374 04/03/1976 Patchwork Patience Leon Numerical puzzle; the pack, apart from 3 cards from different suits, is dealt into a 7 x 7 square. Clues are given to products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) in rows and columns. Exposed cards are built onto bases in suits in ascending or
2375 11/03/1976 Overlaps VI Babs 4 rows and 4 columns comprise three 8-letter words with 4-letter overlaps, e.g. MINUTESTTUBEROSE; clues to these are run together.
2376 25/03/1976 Dissection Sabre Grid comprises octagons and squares. Lights are 5-letter, with each clue also defining a 4-letter word obtained by removing a letter; the letter removed is entered centrally, spelling 'THOU CUNNINGST PATTERN OF EXCELLING NATURE'.
2377 01/04/1976 Disbarred Zander Grid is blank; initial letters of clues spell ACROSS MEANS DOWN AND VICE VERSA - APRIL FOOL!
2378 08/04/1976 Bent words ffancy 12 unclued lights are misprinted names of counties (as in title - KENT, WORCS.).
2379 22/04/1976 Hex Jago Grid comprises hexagons; clues are DLM, with lights 6-letter, entered around numbered hexagons. Perimeter contains WITCH OF ENDOR, MEDEA, CIRCE, HECATE, MERLIN, ARCHIMAGO, FAUST.
2380 29/04/1976 The following names Babs 18 unclued lights form a chain of proper names: JULIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS JOHN OWEN THOMAS CHARLES CHESTER ARTHUR HALLAM TENNYSON JESSE JAMES LUKE GIORDANO BRUNO WALTER SCOTT.
2381 06/05/1976 AnaCyph — IX Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'I'VE A MOUTH L
2382 20/05/1976 Redundancies Apex Each across light is paired with that symmetrically opposite; each clue is double DLM, with a separating superfluous word, whose initial letters spell ALL HEARTLESS. Accordingly, each down light omits its central letter.
2383 27/05/1976 Seven-a-side Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form 3x¦ + 4y¦ = 7z¦, with z prime.
2384 03/06/1976 An alphabetic Leiruza Clues are given according to the alphabetical order of their lights, starting at a random position.
2385 17/06/1976 A difficult matter Bart Unclued lights are THE NAMING OF CATS and names appearing in 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.
2386 24/06/1976 Leaving their tails behind them Machiavelli Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented terminally by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light.
2387 01/07/1976 The Listener Crossword III Klick Answers to asterisked clues are entered as homophones in two parts, the first at the indicated location and the second elsewhere, e.g. JUPITER leads to JEW + PITTER.
2388 15/07/1976 Alphabetical discard Sam Across clues are LL, spelling the alphabet in order.
2389 22/07/1976 Sounds familiar Brym Italicised clues define homophones of the lights, which are proper names.
2390 29/07/1976 Who’s who? — II (or Six Characters in Search of an Author) Adam Unclued lights are names and titular descriptions of characters from MoliFre's comedies.
2391 12/08/1976 Egocentric Creighton Across lights are misprinted, with new letters spelling CREIGHTON IS A GENIUS; half the lights in each direction are entered in reverse. 6 down lights are encoded by replacing each letter by that preceding it in the alphabet.
2392 19/08/1976 Musical switch — II Strebor Lights are entered letter by letter; a chain of 25 composers, written alternately forwards and backwards and with 1-letter overlaps, forms a spiral.
2393 26/08/1976 Two in one Sabre The 26 unclued lights each contain a double letter, with each letter of the alphabet used once; superfluous words in 26 of the clues define the unclued lights.
2394 09/09/1976 ‘Mastermind’ Apex Across clues are DLM; down clues are PD. Playfair-coded forms of two lights are given. KEY: Galsworthy
2395 16/09/1976 Tricubicals — II Rhombus Numerical puzzle; each clue leads to three 3-digit numbers containing the 9 positive digits, the sum of whose cubes also contains the 9 positive digits.
2396 23/09/1976 Sixes and sevens — X Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2397 07/10/1976 Inside out Duck Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear.
2398 14/10/1976 All set for the … Apex Down clues are LL, spelling first 12 and last 12 letters of ... LISTENER CROSSWORD SETTERS' ANNUAL DINNER (central 12 appear in central row), entered in 'seats' above and below the grid. Setters' names in down clues stand for their initial letters.
2399 21/10/1976 Two by two Buff 4 lights are clued numerically using atomic numbers and chemical symbols, taking numbers and letters in pairs, e.g. 182066 leads to Argon, Calcium, Dysprosium which gives ARCADY.
2400 04/11/1976 Odious Bart 20 answers are replaced by the other halves of clichTs, e.g. PICTURE leads to PRETTY, SAFE leads to HOUSES.
2401 11/11/1976 Square Sabre All answers are encoded; the 6 unclued lights are perfect squares. KEY: Crossword 2401 Square by Sabre
2402 18/11/1976 16D(8) 39D(8) Babs Narrative including some verses.
2403 02/12/1976 Four Ways Generalissimo There are 4 methods of entry, each used equally often: normal, reversed, with head at tail and with tail at head.
2404 09/12/1976 Tribasic Batrachian Lights are entered by replacing each letter by its numerical value in base 3, e.g. RADS leads to 200111201.
2405 16/12/1976 Wordplay Jago All clued lights lose S on entry; unclued lights are swords (title being SWORDPLAY).
2406 23/12/1976 A merry TV Christmas tree party Apex Answers to asterisked clues omit trees on entry; other clues are DLM.
2407 06/01/1977 Double harness Leiruza Lights are entered along two knight's tours; one row spells THE LISTENER.
2408 13/01/1977 Lost Rivers Alexis Theme-words ROCHESTER (YORK, DURHAM, RIPON); REED (FLUTE, OBOE, CLARINET); EYRE (LINES, COMMODORE, STOP) - all characters of CHARLOTTE Brontd.
2409 27/01/1977 Odd man out Algol 8 groups of 5 words are given; in each, 4 have something in common, indicated by an unclued across light, while the odd man out leads somehow to one of the unclued down lights.
2410 03/02/1977 Olla podrida — III Klick Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. RAIL-SPLITTER leads to LAIR.
2411 10/02/1977 Word Sums — IX Proton Clues are equations made up of words, with each letter representing the same digit throughout the clue; lights are the corresponding numbers.
2412 24/02/1977 Unlettered Nibor Clues are to be taken in groups of 8; within each group, the nth letter of the word LITERACY has been removed from the nth clue and must be inserted in its answer to form the light.
2413 03/03/1977 Head-hunting — XI Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'I HANG 'MID MEN MY NEEDLESS HEAD'.
2414 10/03/1977 Sam Long Nizam Title is meant to suggest 'Long Psalm' (no. 119); unclued lights are its section headings.
2415 24/03/1977 Alphabetical extracts Ploutos Each clue defines one word and gives a subsidiary indication to another (the light), obtained by omitting a letter; each letter of the alphabet is omitted once across and once down.
2416 31/03/1977 Magic glass Aelfre Grid represents crossword seen in broken mirror; the theme is 'The Lady of Shalott', with several clues and lights being thematic. Central broken area spells 'THE MIRROR CRACK'D FROM SIDE TO SIDE'.
2417 07/04/1977 Double acrostic Adam Initial and final letters of across lights spell MARTIN CHUZZLEWITT (sic) and GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
2418 21/04/1977 Counter measures Bart Certain answers contain numbers in English, French, German or Italian, to be replaced by the corresponding numerals.
2419 28/04/1977 Missing faces Ad 36 cubes, with one letter on each face, form a 6 x 6 square with touching faces bearing the same letter. Clues are given to the 6-letter words formed around the edges, across the rows, and on each cube.
2420 05/05/1977 Schizogrammata — II ffancy There are two identical grids. The alphabet is divided into two categories (letters with and without a vertical axis of symmetry) and each light is split between the two grids accordingly. Clues are normal or DLM according as the light begins in the first
2421 19/05/1977 Two square prime — II Slavko Numerical puzzle with clues of the form x + y = z with x, y squares and z prime; they are given in 8 groups, such that within each group any prime on the left and any on the right contain between them the positive digits other than 5. Some locations
2422 26/05/1977 Anonymous Sam Each across clue defines a word and gives a subsidiary indication to a surname; the corresponding Christian name is subtracted from the word to form the light.
2423 02/06/1977 A jubilant TV play Apex Theme-words ELIZABETH (BANJO, NUTMEG, GAMY); PHILIP (LARKIN, SIDNEY); CHARLES (BIBLES, IDLES); ANNE (BRONT-, STA-L); ANDREW (WARDEN, WARNED); EDWARD (GERMAN, ELGAR). Five of the variations are clued and entered Playfair-coded. KEY: The family group
2424 16/06/1977 Triplet Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters LET in some order.
2425 23/06/1977 Play theme and fairiations Jude Theme-words PEASEBLOSSOM (PEASCOD, SQUASH); COBWEB (GOSSAMER, SILK); MOTH (TIGER, PUSS); MUSTARDSEED (HORSERADISH, PEPPER). Six lights are Playfair-coded. KEY: Starveling
2426 30/06/1977 Un titled Sabre Four unclued lights have 'nothing in common': GENER-ZERO-AL, F-NIL-REQUENT, ORDIN-NIX-ARY, U-NOUGHT-SUAL.
2427 14/07/1977 Missing links — XII Zander 14 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2428 21/07/1977 A double harness ‘All the Queen’s horses’ Leiruza Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube, containing ELIZABETH REGINA, THE SILVER JUBILEE, 19 77; lights are entered along two knight's tours.
2429 28/07/1977 Take your pick — II Ploutos Whenever an across light meets a down light they disagree, but by taking one of the two alternatives it is possible to construct a perfect diagram.
2430 11/08/1977 You name it, you’ve got it Klick The 16 unclued lights are 8 names and 8 words associated with their possessives: ADAM's APPLE, ARISTOTLE's LANTERN, CHANDLER's WOBBLE, CULVER's ROOT, MACFARLANE's BUAT, PELE's HAIR, PHARAOH's SERPENT, SAMSON's POST.
2431 18/08/1977 Seconds out Ascot Each answer loses its second letter on entry.
2432 25/08/1977 Diametricode — IX Babs Unchecked perimeter squares contain the alphabet; each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights.
2433 08/09/1977 A ‘Listener’ setter’s rule book Apex There are two identical grids; clues are LL (spelling I NEED NOT MEAN WHAT I SAY BUT I MUST SAY WHAT I MEAN), given in pairs separated by superfluous words whose initials spell THE ART OF THE CROSSWORD.
2434 15/09/1977 Side by side Generalissimo Each row contains two words (with the separating bar removed), clued together in either order.
2435 22/09/1977 Adam Mass 8 across and 8 down answers lose RIB on entry.
2436 06/10/1977 Short-sighted Machiavelli Unclued lights are diocesan abbreviations.
2437 13/10/1977 More or less Virgilius Each clue leads to two words, one showing how to modify the other to form the light, e.g. PAINTER, TERMINUS lead to PAIN. Half the lights are formed by addition, half by subtraction.
2438 20/10/1977 Old Misery Alexis Theme-words SCROOGE (MARLEY, GHOST); HARPAGON (CLARSACH, LUTE); VOLPONE (VIXEN, REYNARD); GORIOT (GORDON, PORTEOUS); EUCLIO (EUTERPE, CALLIOPE).
2439 03/11/1977 Lancework Salamanca Grid is made of overlapping circles; all lights are 5-letter, with initial or final letter entered in central region, spelling HIS VERBAL PYROTECHNICS ARE ENTERTAINING.
2440 10/11/1977 My cousin’s bungle Waterloo Lights are entered any way up, with B, D, P, Q written in lower case and I with extravagant bars at top and bottom; other letters are normal (so that Z rotates to N and W to M).
2441 17/11/1977 No discrimination Phiz In 15 answers a boy's name must be replaced by a girl's, or vice versa, e.g. MONTROSE leads to MONTCLIVE.
2442 01/12/1977 Sound Cameras Klick 10 unclued across lights, matched in pairs with 5 unclued down lights, give examples (in Chambers' 1977) of certain consonants: LEPRECHAUN, CORONACH, LOCH; CAT, CHORUS, KING; QUITE, COIFFEUR, QUEEN; LANGUOR, LONGER, FINGER; GENTLE, LEDGE, JUDGE.
2443 08/12/1977 Roundabouts Leiruza Grid is the net of an icosahedron; lights are entered along two spiral paths, each from one vertes to its opposite.
2444 15/12/1977 Curve magic Vatsayana Numerical puzzle; grid consists of five circles divided by five spokes, with sums along radii, circles, spirals and cardioids all equal. Some initial clues are given.
2445 22/12/1977 A ......... box (kindly meant) Apex 6 across and 6 down clues are misprinted; these lights, in pairs, occur in 'Christmas' by Betjeman. Half the remaining clues are PD; shaded squares may be rearranged to spell THE POET LAUREATE.
2446 05/01/1978 A Happy New Year Duck Four 6-letter across lights (SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER) are Playfair-coded and clued only by the remaining across lights, which have LL clues spelling 'THE FOUR SEASONS'. KEY: Chimney-stalk
2447 12/01/1978 Three-in-one — II Babs Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.
2448 26/01/1978 Maze Ram Grid is numbered and barred; lights may not cross bars but may turn in any direction. Each square is used exactly twice.
2449 02/02/1978 AnaCyph — X Chabon Grid is circular; clues are incomplete quotations, with lights all 5-letter, mainly entered jumbled. Letters in outermost circle, obtained from those in adjoining circle by moving them one place forwards or backwards in the alphabet, spell 'WEARILY THE SE
2450 09/02/1978 Musical chairs Smokey Each across clue is a subsidiary indication to a word with a musical connection, which must lose its initial and/or final letter on entry.
2451 23/02/1978 Q.E.D. Jude Three square grids surround a 6, 8, 10 triangle; letters from the smaller two combine to give those of the third. Clues are in random order for the 6 x 6 grid and in alphabetical order of light for the 8 x 8 grid; some indications are given in the 10 x 10
2452 02/03/1978 Justyn Print — V Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Bullets in Dallas' leads to ANNA SASSIN.
2453 09/03/1978 Double sixes Adam There are twelve 6-letter lights; six are entered encoded by a cipher determined by the other six, e.g. UPFLOW means that P and F, and L and O, encode each other (twelve pairs are thus obtained and the thirteenth can then be deduced).
2454 23/03/1978 Eight bells Ploutos All answers lose ON on entry (eight bells = noon).
2455 30/03/1978 Very dicy Virgilius Grid is the net of a 5 x 5 x 5 cube, representing a die with black spots in appropriate squares. Letters are replaced by the digits 1 to 6, such that the name of the digit contains the letters it replaces; intersections clear up ambiguities, and numbers m
2456 06/04/1978 Around the table Apex Perimeter contains J.B. PRIESTLEY, MICHAEL FOOT, DENNIS POTTER, D.A.N. JONES, all celebrating the BIRTHDAY of WILLIAM HAZLITT (b. 10/04/1778). Clues are paired (one in each pair being misprinted), separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell
2457 20/04/1978 Attention please Duck Unclued lights can be preceded by EAR.
2458 27/04/1978 The decipherment of Linear C Egma 3 unidentified lights (PLAYFAIR, MINOAN, PERIOD) are encoded in 'Linear C', i.e., Playfair with this as codeword. KEY: Linear C
2459 04/05/1978 Offstage Fudge 36 lights form an endless chain with 2- or 3-letter overlaps. Alternate links are names of people hinted at, but not appearing in, Shakespearean plays, with 'helpful hints' instead of clues; in each of 11 columns a light is entered letter by letter.
2460 18/05/1978 Cook’s tour — XIII Zander 14 asterisked clues contain letter-mixtures of items (or ingredients) of food or drink.
2461 25/05/1978 Heads and tails IV Babs The 3-letter tail of each light is entered at an unclued location; each tail is used at least three times.
2462 01/06/1978 Magic Square Bedecked Leon Card puzzle: two aces and a 5 are removed from the pack, and the remaining cards form a 7 x 7 magic square. Suits are clued numerically (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4); each rank is replaced by a letter and clues are given to anagrams of lights across, down
2463 15/06/1978 The Gaffer Salamanca Across lights are misprinted on the diagonals, which spell LAPSUS CALAMI and SLIP OF THE PEN.
2464 22/06/1978 Jig-Word Eel The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one, containing the letters I M M N O O O O S W, is upside-down). Clues are given in random order.
2465 29/06/1978 Privileged class Klick 6 unclued lights in each direction may be paired to form animals admitted to MOHAMMED's PARADISE: BALAAM's ASS, BILKIS's CUCKOO, SOLOMON's ANT, SALEH's CAMEL, JONAH's WHALE, ABRAHAM's CALF.
2466 13/07/1978 Capital hoax Sabre Each answer loses a letter on entry, spelling 'IT IS A CAPITAL HOAX TO THEORISE BEFORE ONE HAS DATA'. Preamble says unclued lights are given by taking 'initial letters of 24 of the across lights', meaning TOTAL (and COMPLETE and SUM), rather than the init
2467 20/07/1978 Oxford associations Apex 5 across and 5 down lights, identified by having misprinted definitions, give 'CUCKOO-ECHOING, BELL-SWARMED, LARK-CHARMED, ROOK-RACKED, RIVER-ROUNDED', from 'Duns Scotus's Oxford' by Gerard Manley HOPKINS (unclued).
2468 27/07/1978 Christian hope Duck Grid is church-shaped; clues are LL, spelling 'GOD IS DECREEING TO BEGIN SOME NEW AND GREAT PERIOD IN HIS CHURCH'.
2469 10/08/1978 Gazetteer — Volume I Ploutos 12 unidentified clues lead to words forming half the name of an English town, the light being the other half, e.g. ABBAS leads to COMBE. All towns begin with A, B or C.
2470 17/08/1978 Lay off Macduff Egma 14 unclued lights are names of lighthouses (Macduff, another lighthouse, is not included).
2471 24/08/1978 Football crazy Ascot Clues are DLM; there are 3 types of entry - keepers (normal), halfbacks (with either first or second half reversed) and centre-forwards (with centre of light moved to front). Two unclued lights are 'wingless wonders': (C)OLOSSU(S), (P)YRAMID(S).
2472 07/09/1978 Crossbird II Eli Grid covers a map of Britain; narrative with unclued lights names of birds, with initial squares approximately in areas where they may be found (except in one case). Lights run in four directions.
2473 14/09/1978 Interdepartmental Adam 16 lights contain names of French dTpartements; associated numbers are entered in a separate grid, along with certain products.
2474 21/09/1978 Absorb and dawn Salamanca Title is really 'Across and Down'; in across lights vowels remain constant but consonants change, while in down lights consonants remain constant but vowels change (all lights still being words).
2475 05/10/1978 Heads and tails V Babs The 3-letter tail of each light is entered at an unclued location; each tail is used at least three times.
2476 12/10/1978 Last seen disappearing … from the last bus to Woodstock? Apex Down clues are LL, spelling (with central row of grid) HID IN STRANGE BOXES COMPLETELY CUT OFF - clue to HOUDINI (unclued).
2477 19/10/1978 Displaced persons IV Peto Each answer loses an anagram of a Christian name to form the light.
2478 02/11/1978 What’s the point? Aelfre Unclued lights are sizes of type, whose 'points' are given by their grid numbers (which are necessarily misplaced), e.g. 12 Across is PICA, 3+ Across is BRILLIANT.
2479 09/11/1978 All set for a merry … Apex Down clues are LL, spelling first 12 and last 12 letters of ... PARTY OF HAPPY LISTENER CROSSWORD SOLVERS (central 12 appear in central row), entered in 'seats' above and below the grid. Solvers' names in down clues stand for their initial letters.
2480 16/11/1978 Hour-glass — X Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'AND WHEN THYSELF WITH SHINING FOOT SHALL PASS AMONG THE GUESTS STAR-SCATTERED ON THE GRASS, AND IN THY JOYOUS ERRAND REACH THE SPOT WHE
2481 30/11/1978 Game Warden Generalissimo 10 unclued lights can be preceded by 'Scotch': ATTORNEY, TAPE, COLLOPS, DRAPER, TERRIER, ELM, SNAP, BONNET, PEBBLE, FIR. Puzzle marks St. Andrew's day (game = maimed).
2482 07/12/1978 Last year ASIA, this year SARK (and JAIL next year!) Sal and Sim As exemplified in the title, in each light the nth letter is replaced by the positive digit obtained by subtracting n from its numerical value, reducing modulo 9 and adding 1.
2483 14/12/1978 Peace formula Duck Lights are encoded, half by replacing each letter by its predecessor in the alphabet and half by using successors; for each method, half the lights are entered forwards and half backwards. Every fourth clue is DLM and is designed for Consumer Viewpoint fa
2484 21/12/1978 Selection box Mass 11 clues have misprinted definition, while 11 have misprinted lights; 11 must gain and 11 must lose a letter, spelling 'I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE XMAS'. 4 lights are Playfair-coded; unclued lights are confections, mixed fruits, mixed nuts and XMAS GREETINGS KEY: Snowflake
2485 04/01/1979 The Listener wishes you … Ascot Clues are LL, spelling ... A LOT OF SUCCESSFUL SOLVING IN NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE.
2486 11/01/1979 In other words — III ffancy The initial letter of each clue determines the relationship of the light to the answer: A-D means a synonym, E-I no change, J-O an anagram, P-S an antonym and T-Z a homophone.
2487 18/01/1979 Here’s to OUR Anniversary Apex Down clues are evenly divided between normal, MP and PD; across answers lose OR or AU on entry (with subsidiary indications referring to lights), to commemorate golden anniversary of The Listener.
2488 01/02/1979 A Queen and her Dog Leiruza The centre of each of sixteen 3 x 3 squares contains a rose; the queen travels horizontally and vertically while her dog performs a knight's tour, 'thoroughly examining each tree in turn'.
2489 08/02/1979 Topped and Tailed III Klick Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.
2490 15/02/1979 Some reflections Ascot Half the lights in each direction are entered backwards.
2491 01/03/1979 Half and Half Sabre Half the lights in each direction are jumbled; only 12 different letters are used in the grid.
2492 08/03/1979 Letters taken Egma The 26 across clues are LL, spelling QWERTY...M.
2493 15/03/1979 Decade Babs Narrative referring to events of 1811-1820 (the two central lights are MDCCCXI and MDCCCXX).
2494 29/03/1979 Misprintomits Mass Half the clues in each direction have misprinted definitions; the remainder have a letter omitted from the definitions. Across lights are entered misprinted, spelling ''TIS DEVILS MUST PRINT'.
2495 05/04/1979 Lost & found Sal & Sim Columns and rows are labelled A-M and N-Z respectively. Clues (given in alphabetical order) comprise definitions of a 6- and two 5-letter words and a 13-letter anagram of all three with a letter common to each removed; this letter indicates the row or col
2496 12/04/1979 Biliteral Machiavelli Each across answer loses a double letter on entry (with subsidiary indications referring to the lights), spelling 'I COPIED ALL THE LETTERS'.
2497 26/04/1979 Theme and Variations IX Zander Theme-words SPEECH (TMESIS, MEIOSIS); WORSHIP (MAYOR, MAGISTRATE); WANT (MOLE, TALPA); FEAR (FRAE, FARE) - the four freedoms.
2498 03/05/1979 Tips off Ascot Answers lose their initial and final letters on entry.
2499 10/05/1979 Points don’t count (2) Hal Lights are numerical, with any decimal points ignored.
2500 24/05/1979 Floreat in Aeternum Ploutos, Babs, Sam, Apex, Klick, Zander Grid is an L shape comprising five 12 x 12 grids: Diametricode, Alphabetical Cocktail, Play Quiz, Topped and Tailed, Sixes and Sevens. Central message reads THE LISTENER CROSSWORD CELEBRATES TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED: GESUNDHEIT'. KEY: Questionably
2501 31/05/1979 Small change II Klick Each light is formed from the answer either by transposing two letters or by moving one letter.
2502 07/06/1979 Figure it out Alban Half the answers in each direction contain names of numerals, ignored in subsidiary indications; they are replaced by the numerals on entry, e.g. LEONINE leads to LEO9.
2503 21/06/1979 No I Nizam Across clues contain no instances of the letter 'I'; each down clue contains at least one. All answers end in I; all instances of I are removed on entry.
2504 05/07/1979 Solitaire II Leon Card puzzle; the pack, less clubs and aces, is dealt in a solitaire shape with one position empty. Clues are given to products along diagonals of ranks and suits (D = 2, H = 3, S = 5). The solitaire is played, with superior cards jumping inferior ones (or
2505 12/07/1979 Hesiod’s V Jago 5 unclued lights in each direction begin or end adjoining 5 isolated squares; the pairs of lights give Hesiod's 5 ages, and the squares contain the associated zodiacal signs.
2506 19/07/1979 Review Babs Narrative including several 'poems'.
2507 26/07/1979 Theme and Variations Ascot Theme-words NEWMARKET (EUCHRE, SNAP); YORK (CHESTER, LANCASTER); WINDSOR (HARLECH, CONWAY); DONCASTER (TRANMERE, BRISTOL).
2508 02/08/1979 Honeycode Jude Grid is hexagonal with 7-letter lights entered in and around numbered hexagons, which spell 'THOU WHORESON ZED! THOU UNNECESSARY LETTER!' 6 corner lights are coded by placing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order (except Z) in a 5 x 5 KEY: Jack-in-the-box
2509 09/08/1979 Slightly Chipped Duck Each answer loses its initial or final letter on entry; initial and final omissions each exhaust the alphabet.
2510 16/08/1979 Lastaddomits Mass Each answer loses its last letter on entry, the letter concerned being either added to or subtracted from the definition.
2511 23/08/1979 Snakes and Ladders VII Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
2512 30/08/1979 A Double Harness Leiruza Lights are entered along two knight's tours; 26 letters are already entered, spelling LOGODAEDALIST and METAGROBOLISE along separate knight's tours.
2513 06/09/1979 Pray Fair Jude Grid comprises two equal halves and a central column, linked by 1 Across (DOUBLE-CROSSER). Clues to corresponding lights are paired, with one normal and one MP in each pair, appearing in either order; 4 lights are Playfair-coded, with codeword entered in KEY: Clergywoman
2514 13/09/1979 Armchair Detective Sabre Each light is formed by adding a superfluous letter to the answer. Diagonals spell CO-ARSENIC-COA and DUC-BODY-KPOND.
2515 20/09/1979 Morphallaxis Novamor Lights, all words, are anagrams of the answers.
2516 27/09/1979 Head-hunting — XII Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'HIS HEART RUNS AWAY WITH HIS HEAD'.
2517 04/10/1979 41 down Mime 8 unclued lights are utterers of 6 Shakespearean malapropisms, clued normally but entered as said.
2518 11/10/1979 Word-ladder Sam Lights are unclued rungs of two word-ladders.
2519 18/10/1979 Sid Klick 14 unclued lights are middle names of American preSIDents.
2520 25/10/1979 Musical chairs Nizam Lights, all words, are anagrams of the answers with a letter removed; the letters removed in each direction are the same, but in a different order.
2521 01/11/1979 Where It’s At Virgilius Grid is blank with co-ordinates; each clue has inserted in it a cryptic indication of the light's starting square (row first for across, column for down). Clues are given in random order.
2522 08/11/1979 Surprising One Apex Clues are LL, spelling TO JAMES EMLYN EVANS OUR CROSSWORD CHECKER and given in symmetrical pairs separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell THE ONE YOU DID NOT VET.
2523 15/11/1979 (1, 3, 2) Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form (X, Y, Z), meaning X + (X + 1) + (X + 2) + ... + (X + Z - 1) = (X + Z) + (X + Z + 1) + ... + Y.
2524 22/11/1979 Missing Faces II Ad 36 cubes, with one letter on each face, form a 6 x 6 square with touching faces bearing the same letter. Clues are given to the 6-letter words formed around the edges, across the rows, and on each cube.
2525 29/11/1979 Pardon the Interruption … Jago Clues are DLM; each light is 'interrupted' once by a crossing but non-intersecting light.
2526 06/12/1979 Wordsquares Sabre Most answers lose letters on entry which, taken in rows or columns as appropriate, form 'codewords' when encoded as follows: each letter is associated with a number between 1 and 26, and the letter associated with n is replaced by the nth letter of the
2527 13/12/1979 Mass Adam 14 lights are the second halves of 'M and S' pairs, with the first half being clued, e.g. MARKS leads to SPENCER, MOODY leads to SANKEY, MYCROFT leads to SHERLOCK.
2528 20/12/1979 A Christmas Cake Duck Grid is circular with 25 radial lights either jumbled or Playfair-coded; 3 circles contain normal lights having misprinted DLM clues; the other 3 contain the letters of the Playfair square in order, ILEX AQUIFOLIUM/HEDERA HELIX and MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY KEY: Cold turkey
2529 03/01/1980 Sixes and Sevens — XI Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2530 10/01/1980 Letters patent Malexia Lights across are entered with omitted letters and those down are misprinted, with omitted and misprinted letters both spelling 'THE MOTHER OF INVENTION' (title is 'setters' parent' misprinted); each misprint is given by a different across light. Half the
2531 17/01/1980 Year In, Year Out Smokey 12 lettered double clues lead to words containing (in order) JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC and words with them removed; these lights are to be entered in locations to be discovered.
2532 24/01/1980 Diametricode X Babs Unchecked perimeter squares contain the alphabet; each letter encodes that opposite it. Italicised clues have encoded lights; 2 normal clues are given in encoded form.
2533 31/01/1980 Brave New World Egma Grid is blank with co-ordinates and a line of footprints, which contain names of Red Indian tribes (unclued); most other lights are jumbled.
2534 07/02/1980 Mixed doubles Virgilius There are four identical grids; at each location, two clues are given, each leading to two lights.
2535 14/02/1980 Cross My Heart Jude Grid has a central heart, cutting some across lights; each across light is paired with a word in the heart, and a double clue leads to them with the 'heart' clue LL, spelling 'OBSCURE EPISTLES OF LOVE'. Down clues, apart from those in the first and last c
2536 21/02/1980 25 Ac., 57 Dn. Sal and Sim As exemplified in the title, in each light each letter is encoded as the positive digit congruent modulo 9 to the sum of its numerical value and its position in the light.
2537 28/02/1980 ‘University Terms’ Phiz Each one-word clue leads to an answer containing a word associated with the name of a university, which replaces it to form the light, e.g. VILLAINOUS leads to ASTONINOUS.
2538 06/03/1980 Right and Left Sol Apart from 1 Across, the grid is divided into two identical halves; each location has a double clue.
2539 13/03/1980 Illicit Threesomes Duck 15 unpositioned lights form 5 'illicit threesomes' (with three-word alliterative clues), in which a phrase 'A and B' is fused with a phrase or compound word 'BC' to make 'A and BC', e.g. PESTLE and MORTAR BOARD.
2540 20/03/1980 A Chap To Attend Yearly For It Apex 9 unclued lights are the surnames of members of The Listener's editorial staff; Christian names appear in the perimeter, whose unchecked letters may be arranged to form the title. In the clues, setters' and solvers' names stand for their initial letters.
2541 27/03/1980 Stuffed Pairs Generalissimo Across lights are 12-letter, comprising one word within another, e.g. FLESH-INFORM-Y; clues are double with either word clued first.
2542 03/04/1980 3.4.80 Adam Narrative describing 'The PIRATES of PENZANCE', with 10 normal clues.
2543 10/04/1980 Mixed Bag Klick 30 lights are 'Topped and Tailed', 12 are homophones of the answers, 1 could be either and the remainder are clued normally; certain diagonals spell 'INTOLERABLE WRESTLE WITH WORDS AND MEANINGS'.
2544 17/04/1980 Clip On Tee Peg Zander All lights are misprinted once, but are still words.
2545 24/04/1980 Hidden Verse E.M. Holroyd Unclued lights form 'STAR AND CORONAL AND BELL APRIL UNDERFOOT RENEWS AND THE HOPE OF MAN AS WELL FLOWERS AMONG THE MORNING DEWS'; their unchecked letters may be arranged to form ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN.
2546 01/05/1980 Consecutives Ascot Across answers lose any consecutive letters on entry, e.g. HIGH-STRUNG leads to RUNG, GESTURE leads to GERE.
2547 08/05/1980 All Square Rhombus Numerical puzzle with clues of the form (x, y, z), meaning x¦ + (x + 1)¦ + ... + y¦ = z¦.
2548 22/05/1980 Setters Patent Smokey 17 lights are entered misprinted so as to contain the name of a setter; the subsidiary indication in each case refers only to the remainder of the light.
2549 29/05/1980 Stormy Aelfre Clues are DLM, forming a narrative about a storm; unclued lights across and down are cats and dogs respectively.
2550 05/06/1980 Tetratriades Nizam Unclued lights are CHARITES (AGLAIA, EUPHROSYNE, THALIA); ERINYES (TISIPHONE, ALECTO, MEGAERA); FATES (CLOTHO, LACHESIS, ATROPOS); GORGONES (STHENO, EURYALE, MEDUSA).
2551 12/06/1980 Comic Yarn Bart 23 lights are acronyms, clued by anagrams of theie full forms (title is an anagram of 'acronymic').
2552 19/06/1980 Warp and woof ffancy A central 5 x 5 square is formed by 'weaving' across and down lights to form 'SO FAIR A FANCY FEW WOULD WEAVE'.
2553 26/06/1980 Deduction Miguel Grid comprises hexagons and triangles, with 7-letter lights entered about numbered hexagons with one letter omitted; these spell 'AN ELEMENTARY THREE-PIPE PROBLEM', and the first and last (unclued) lights are HOLMES and WATSON.
2554 03/07/1980 Pun My Word Hen Half of the across definitions are puns of the correct forms; half of the down subsidiary indications lead to puns of the lights.
2555 10/07/1980 Eightsome Reels Hotspur All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares.
2556 17/07/1980 ‘Je ne sais pas what to do’ Algol In 28 clues one or more English words have been replaced by their approximate French equivalents.
2557 24/07/1980 Enigma Variations Nibor 13 lights related to Elgar, e.g. GERONTIUS, CIRCUMSTANCE, EDWARD, are entered encoded in the manner of the Enigma machine using as codewords the 13 names of the Enigma variations, e.g. EDWARD + EDUEDU becomes JHRFVY.
2558 31/07/1980 An Alphajig Leiruza Grid is blank except for the central 4 letters; clues across and down are presented separately, in alphabetical order of the lights, which are all 4- or 6-letter.
2559 07/08/1980 Missing Links — XIII Zander 16 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2560 14/08/1980 Notation Nizam Unclued lights are all words lacking the suffix '-TATION'.
2561 21/08/1980 Inside Out II Duck Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear.
2562 28/08/1980 A Couple of Drop Outs Ascot Each answer loses two letters to form the light; the letters omitted are never the first or last, or consecutive, and never precede an unchecked letter.
2563 04/09/1980 Admission Adam Perimeter of the central 10 x 10 square reads 'THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE' - XVI AND V CLUE LETTERS; these spell 'MY LIFE IS SPENT IN ONE LONG EFFORT TO ESCAPE FROM THE COMMONPLACES OF EXISTENCE' - SHERLOCK HOLMES.
2564 11/09/1980 Call My Bluff Egma Each clue is triple, containing two normal clues to lights to be entered elsewhere and a one-word 'correct' definition of the light.
2565 18/09/1980 Tangled Chains E.M. Holroyd Each light has 6, 8 or 10 letters, and is entered either clockwise or anti-clockwise around a bar of length 1, 2 or 3 respectively, beginning anywhere. The bars roughly form a Union Jack; the perimeter contains 'NEVER COMES THE TRADER, NEVER FLOATS AN EUR
2566 25/09/1980 Lip Service Leon Grid is a solitaire grid; 12 different letters appear in the lights, and each is given a different equivalent in base 12, with most clues referring to both the literal and the numerical forms of the lights. When the solitaire is played, pegs removed in or
2567 02/10/1980 Parasite Lost MacNaughton Certain clues consist of the letters of the light, in alphabetical order, less those of a 'parasite' synoynm, e.g. NO (5) leads to POINT (- TIP).
2568 09/10/1980 Cross Word [crossing at letter “o”] Sabre Each answer is split into two parts, entered in different directions so as to cross at the appropriately numbered square; the difference in lengths between the two parts is given.
2569 16/10/1980 Points Don’t Count (3) Hal Lights are numerical, with any decimal points ignored.
2570 23/10/1980 Siamese Triplets Merlin 12 triplets are thematically related; each has a member in common with the triplets before and after it, e.g. HILARY - MICHAELMAS - TRINITY - JESUS - QUEENS' - BROOKLYN - MANHATTAN. Middle members are clued but not entered; members in two triplets are unc
2571 30/10/1980 Jig-Word II Eel The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one is missing and one, containing the letters A I I I I N O O O U X Z Z, is on its side). Clues are given in random order.
2572 06/11/1980 Miss Printer’s Devilish One-Armed Bandit Apex Half the down lights of each length have MP clues, with the remaining clues PD. Across clues are normal but lead to a 12-letter word, an 8- and a 4-letter word, a 4- and an 8-letter word, or three 4-letter words.
2573 13/11/1980 9 Down Bart 4 central pairs of 6-letter lights give examples of SPOONERISMS; the diagonals are LOVING SHEPHERD and SHOVING LEOPARD.
2574 20/11/1980 Four Ways II Generalissimo There are 4 methods of entry, each used equally often: normal, reversed, with head at tail and with tail at head.
2575 27/11/1980 1–52 Klick Across lights are entered BOUSTROPHEDON.
2576 04/12/1980 Justyn Print VI Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Making an Entrance' leads to VESTA BUHL.
2577 11/12/1980 Minus Three Babs All lights lose the consecutive letters STU in some order.
2578 18/12/1980 Salamanca’s greeting … (For Mephisto) Salamanca Grid contains a rough outline of a tree; vertical lights read upwards or downwards form it. 18 clues have a seasonal word removed (as in PD, but the light is the answer to the restored clue). Unclued lights form I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
2579 01/01/1981 A Double Harness — Greetings Leiruza Lights are entered along two knight's tours; HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL is given in certain diagonals.
2580 08/01/1981 Teratologic Euginnot 8 unclued lights require a suffix involving a body part to give a listed quality, e.g. HEAVY (-HANDED for clumsiness).
2581 15/01/1981 Mermaids Duck Down lights are jumbled; across lights, clued by anagrams, are 13 'mermaids', e.g. YVETTE XIPHIAS, whose initials exhaust the alphabet.
2582 22/01/1981 Pin the Tail on the Donkey Smokey The 30 answers which are creatures are entered with the last letter in any position.
2583 29/01/1981 Five-a-Side Football Ascot Clues are DLM, with five types of light entry: keepers (normal), full-backs (reversed), left and half-backs (with appropriate half reversed) and centre-forwards (with central letter moved to the front).
2584 05/02/1981 Spoiled for Choice Jago Each square is bisected, alternately horizontally and vertically, giving a choice for entry in every other square.
2585 12/02/1981 Half Turn Sabre Either the first or the second half of each answer is entered jumbled.
2586 19/02/1981 Highlands and Islands Twudge Narrative containing 23 unclued lights, names of Scottish islands, in either hidden or jumbled form.
2587 26/02/1981 Masque Aelfre Each clue contains a number of misprints, with the correct forms of the misprints forming an anagram of the light.
2588 05/03/1981 Neutral Opinions Adam Answers lose initial letters on entry, spelling 'TERENCE, THIS IS STUPID STUFF' (across) and A.E. HOUSMAN'S 'A SHROPSHIRE LAD' (down). Central letters of central words in clues spell 'QUOT HOMINES, TOT SENTENTIAE' (across) and AUTANT DE TETES, AUTANT D'AV
2589 12/03/1981 Nominative Cases Mime Asterisked clues lead to lights with 'cases' of Dickensian characters, e.g. V-ENT-HOLES; subsidiary indications are to centres only.
2590 19/03/1981 Association Buff 6 answers are replaced by the other halves of football clubs, e.g. FOREST leads to NOTTINGHAM.
2591 26/03/1981 Women’s Lib Egma Unclued lights are words lacking the suffix '-MAN' (across) or '-BOY' (down).
2592 02/04/1981 An Award … Apex Perimeter contains the six Listener editors, whose unchecked letters give TO ALL; there are various clue types, including LL, spelling EDITORS. Unclued central column is THE LISTENER.
2593 09/04/1981 Dyslexics Rule K.O. Waterloo Some clues have dyslexic errors (e.g. SLILY for SILLY) and normal lights; all others lead to a pair of words, identical to the dyslexic, with either to be entered.
2594 16/04/1981 Decal I Hotspur Twenty 10-letter lights are entered as perimeters of 4 x 3 rectangles and clued in alphabetical order; there are 18 positioning lights.
2595 23/04/1981 Patrons Foxglove Extra letters in clues spell 'AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT'; 10 unclued lights are surnames with Christian name GEORGE (puzzle marks St. George's day).
2596 30/04/1981 Ups and Downs Hen 5 snakes 'wriggle' downwards, and 3 ladders climb upwards, from the end of one across light to the beginning of another; across lights are clued in the appropriate order.
2597 07/05/1981 Authorisation Meringue 9 answers are titles of literary works, with the lights the authors (of the same length).
2598 14/05/1981 Misprints Some Reflections Ascot Of the answers, one-third are entered misprinted (giving numerous alternative correct solutions), one-third in reverse and one-third normally.
2599 21/05/1981 BBC? Mass Theme-words BELL (ALEXANDER, GRAHAM); BOOK (BIBLE, KORAN); CANDLE (CONTAINER, SENILITY reversed). 15 clues are MP, spelling EXCOMMUNICATION.
2600 28/05/1981 Out of This World Duck Across clues are LL, spelling TODAY'S ASCENSION DAY; down lights are entered in reverse.
2601 04/06/1981 Before and After Virgilius 8 unclued lights form phrases when preceded or followed by their grid numbers: 7 SEAS, 9 LIVES, 39 STEPS, 40 WINKS; NUMBER 1, FIRST 11, SWEET 16, CATCH 22.
2602 18/06/1981 Look Before You Leap Generalissimo Across clues are LL, spelling 'TURN UP THE LIGHTS'; down lights are entered in reverse.
2603 25/06/1981 Unholy Trinity Ploutos Each subsidiary indication leads to a word obtained from the light by replacing one letter with three, e.g. DELIBERATE from DELICATE.
2604 02/07/1981 Double Misprints Merlin Grid is blank, and is to contain two words in each row and column, one being a misprint. Clues are double: half are normal, while in the other half one of the two is DLM. All clues to normal lights have misprinted definitions.
2605 09/07/1981 Two Pay Three Salamanca There are thirty 5-letter and fifteen 6-letter lights (including one of the latter under the main grid). Clues are arranged in triples, consisting of two normal clues to 5-letter lights, and a definition of a 6-letter light together with a mixture of the
2606 30/07/1981 A Matter of Detection Adam The 18 across and 18 down lights are formed from the answers by omitting one letter and adding another, spelling 'THE MAN IN THE PASSAGE', 'THE PURLOINED LETTER' and 'SOLVED BY INSPECTION', all stories from 'Tales of Detection' (Everyman no. 928), edited
2607 06/08/1981 Killer Cure Dimitry Each clue is misprinted: correct letters exhaust PENICILLIN four times, while misprints spell CORYNEBACTERIUM, STAPHYLOCOCCUS, CLOSTRIDIUM. The central 5 x 5 square of the grid (whose central letter is isolated) reads ALEXANDER FLEMING CENTENARY.
2608 13/08/1981 Old Masters Smokey All across and 15 down clues are LL, spelling SIR ALFRED HITCHCOCK - THE LADY VANISHES; other down answers lose girl's names on entry.
2609 20/08/1981 Occidental Bart 13 unclued lights are Hebridean islands with their initial letters approximately correctly placed in the grid.
2610 27/08/1981 Happy Birthday Books Apex Clues are LL, spelling SUMMONED BY BELLS (across) and SIR JOHN BETJEMAN (down); clues are in pairs separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell COLLECTED POEMS.
2611 03/09/1981 Dab Jago All lights omit at least one O; SW-NE diagonal spells SLIPPED DISCS (title is 'bad back').
2612 10/09/1981 Milestone Miscellany Zander Zander's 100th puzzle, with 5 clue types: Sixes and Sevens, Cook's Tour (containing a letter-mixture of an item of food or drink), Head-Hunting, Justyn Print and Missing Links.
2613 17/09/1981 For W.J.Q. (who introduced me to Mrs Byrne) Sabre Answers are entered with second and subsequent occurrences of letters ignored, e.g. APPARITION leads to APRITON; subsidiary indications are to the forms entered. Numbered squares are transferred to a separate 6 x 6 square, spelling 'A SPECIES OF LIGHT WHI
2614 24/09/1981 X Marks the Spot Xmas Grid is blank with central X entered; lights are entered along four paths, with initial letters spelling ROGET'S THESAURUS (for successful path ending at centre), PANDORA'S BOX, ARTIFICIAL PASTE JEWELLERY and IRON PYRITES.
2615 01/10/1981 Just Do As You’re Told Klick Each across clue contains a superfluous word, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'Disc one grasps at in writing' leads to PATEN, SINGLETON (= one), giving PATENT.
2616 08/10/1981 The Decipherment of Linear C — Alternative Interpretation Foxglove All 7-letter lights (including the unclued MICHAEL, VENTRIS and LINEAR B) are entered jumbled in the same fashion as LINEAR C is a jumble of EN CLAIR.
2617 15/10/1981 Jigsaw II Babs The grid is given in 5 pieces complete with bars, to be assembled (and no bars occur at the joins).
2618 22/10/1981 Crossbird III Eli Grid covers a map of Britain; narrative with unclued lights names of birds, with initial squares approximately in areas where they may be found (except in one case). Lights run in four directions.
2619 29/10/1981 Flying Sorcery Gromwell 6 lights (DOMDANIEL, VAMPIRES, EMPUSA, GALDRAGON, LILITH and HECATE) are clued without definition; 5 unclued lights form 'SECRET, BLACK AND MIDNIGHT HAGS'.
2620 05/11/1981 Fireworks ffancy Half of the answers lose GO on entry (as fireworks 'go off' on Bonfire Night).
2621 12/11/1981 Editorial Connections D.G. Tallis Clues are MP, spelling READ HOWARDS END BY EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER (marking end of Anthony Howard's editorship of The Listener); unclued lights are names of principal characters in the book.
2622 19/11/1981 Nesting Birds VII Peto There are six 5 x 5 grids, one light in each being a bird, with 6 central letters spelling a bird. Lights in corresponding positions are clued in random order by definition in doggerel.
2623 26/11/1981 Joe to Hie and Make Her His Eel 8 across answers are changed on entry by replacing one vowel and one consonant with the next in the alphabet; 8 down answers are changed in the opposite direction. All such lights are also defined broadly in the clues.
2624 03/12/1981 Very Good, Sir, Very Good, Sir Macbu Diagonals read PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE; perimeter contains butlers in his stories.
2625 10/12/1981 The Fish are Rising Machiavelli Each down answer contains a fish, to be reversed on entry; in each case the subsidiary indication refers to the remainder of the light.
2626 17/12/1981 Christmas Fir Play Salamanca Grid is tree-shaped; thirty-two 9-letter lights are entered in and around balls, clued in random order, with balls spelling 'WHEN CHILDREN GATHER ROUND THEIR TREE'. 11 PD and 11 DLM clues give positioning lights; 8 other lights are Playfair-coded. KEY: Roast duckling
2627 31/12/1981 Split Personality Duck Each clue contains a superfluous word, whose initial letters spell CONGRATULATIONS TO TIMES CROSSWORD CHAMPION TONY SEVER. Theme-word is CROSSWORD, with 8 variations on each half: types of CROSS and words which can follow WORD.
2628 07/01/1982 Theme and Variations — X Zander Theme-words TYMPANUM (TRIANGLE, CYMBALS); AMPULLA (CRUET, FLASK); VESTIBULE (VLEI, TUBES); LABYRINTH (MINOTAUR, THESEUS) - all 'contributors to the Listener'.
2629 14/01/1982 In Need of Treatment Apex Clues to symmetrically opposite lights are paired, separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell CHRISTIAAN N. BARNARD. One down clue in each pair is MP; the 'heart' (the central letter) of each across light is transplanted into its symmetric
2630 21/01/1982 Fourteen BC Egma 14 unclued lights are Old Testament characters.
2631 28/01/1982 The Golden Fleece Ploutos 10 unclued lights form 5 pairs of variations on the months after JUNE (i.e., JASON): QUINTILIS, HEGMONATH; VENERABLE, SUBLIME; FENCE, ASH; MISTY-BRIGHT, LONESOME; NERVE, MOB.
2632 04/02/1982 Morphallaxis II Novamor Lights, all words, are anagrams of the answers.
2633 11/02/1982 Scout Games Klick 18 answers are misprinted to become authors (title is from SCOTT, JAMES).
2634 18/02/1982 About Noon Flea All occurrences of AB and ON are removed on entry.
2635 25/02/1982 All Clued Up Goujeers Down lights are entered in reverse.
2636 04/03/1982 Pangram Mime 6 clued codewords exhaust the alphabet; placed underneath it in an order to be determined they form a cipher, used for the four 12-letter lights. KEY: Cwm quiz fjords glyph vext bank
2637 11/03/1982 A Driver’s Nightmare? Ascot All occurrences of T are removed on entry.
2638 18/03/1982 Eightsome Reels Sol All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares.
2639 25/03/1982 Not All There Bart Every third letter is missing from the lights: equally many lights are missing the 1st, 4th etc., the 2nd, 5th etc. and the 3rd, 6th etc.
2640 01/04/1982 Rubrics Politicaster Unclued lights are capital cities of the republics of the USSR; MOSCOW is entered outside the grid.
2641 08/04/1982 Word-splitting Duck Apart from 1 Across, the grid is two identical halves, and each answer is split into two halves, entered in either order.
2642 15/04/1982 Ice Cream Parlor Sabre 12 answers are jumbled on entry so that when paired and one of the pair surrounds the other they form 6 'new 'n excitin' flavors': PEANUT RIPPLE, ALMOND 'N' TABASCO, FUDGE 'N' SPINACH, ROCKY ROAD, APPLE SHERBET and PECAN SWIRL.
2643 22/04/1982 Hour-glass XI Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'BEING YOUR SLAVE, WHAT SHOULD I DO BUT TEND UPON THE HOURS AND TIMES OF YOUR DESIRE? I HAVE NO PRECIOUS TIME AT ALL TO SPEND NOR SERVIC
2644 29/04/1982 Double Entendre Gos 12 lights use spellings given, but not cross-referenced, in Chambers' 1977; these are correctly positioned, but the locations of others must be determined.
2645 06/05/1982 Three in One III Babs Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.
2646 13/05/1982 Starlit Mass Grid is circular; radial lights are 6-letter and jumbled on entry. The two outer circles contain 'THE SKIES ARE PAINTED WITH UNNUMBER'D SPARKS' - SHAKESPEARE and 'THERE ARE FLASHES STRUCK FROM MIDNIGHTS' - ROBERT BROWNING.
2647 20/05/1982 Hex II Jago Grid comprises hexagons; clues are DLM, with lights 6-letter, entered around numbered hexagons. Perimeter contains CANTRIP, ABRACADABRA, CHARM, EVIL EYE, GLAMOUR, ENCHANTMENT.
2648 27/05/1982 Metapuzzle Virgilius Clues given lead to words forming meta-clues, whose answers are the lights.
2649 03/06/1982 Miscast Adam Clues are MP, spelling VARRIUS, PETER, THOMAS, FROTH, ESCALUS, ANGELO (characters from 'Measure for Measure'); lights are all misprinted, with correct letters spelling SHALLOW, ROBIN, PISTOL, RUGBY, SLENDER, FENTON (characters from 'The Merry Wives of Win
2650 10/06/1982 Miss Playfair’s Connections Apex 4 lights are Playfair-coded, each being an anagram of a composer, with two of his works being unclued lights; other clues are MP. KEY: The musical box
2651 17/06/1982 Double Magic Square Bedecked I Leon Card puzzle: two 2s are removed from the pack, and the remaining cards form two 5 x 5 magic squares. Suits are clued numerically in base 5 (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4); each rank is replaced by a letter and DLM clues are given to anagrams of lights across
2652 24/06/1982 (Not Quite) My Own Invention Aelfre Grid is blank; theme is 'Alice through the Looking-Glass' chapter 8, with several thematic lights, mirrorwise entry and down lights entered in reverse.
2653 01/07/1982 Mora Novamor Half the clues in each direction are MP; remaining lights are anagrams of the answers.
2654 08/07/1982 Noms de guerre Corylus Unclued lights are characters in novels by Evelyn Waugh.
2655 15/07/1982 Who? Jago 6 lights have SAINTSWITHIN, i.e., the name of a saint entered inside his or her symbol: BAR-ANTONIA-REL, LA-FRANCIS-MP, SP-QUENTIN-IT, ANC-CLEMENT-HOR, BOAT-JUDE-HOOK, HAM-ADRIAN-MER.
2656 22/07/1982 Cook’s Tour XIV Zander 15 asterisked clues contain letter-mixtures of items of food or drink.
2657 29/07/1982 Schizogrammata III ffancy There are three identical grids. The alphabet is divided into three categories (letters whose lines are straight, straight and curved, and curved) and each light is split between the three grids accordingly. Clues are MP, normal or DLM according as the li
2658 05/08/1982 Provincials Egma Diagonals spell ELIEN, EBOR, CESTR, EXON, WINTON.
2659 12/08/1982 Jumble Sale Sol Odd-numbered answers are jumbled on entry so that no letter remains in its original position.
2660 19/08/1982 Ben Casein 12 lettered clues lack definitions and lead to battles, whose separate syllables, all words, are to be entered as the unclued lights.
2661 26/08/1982 Norma & Rod Ascot Title means 'no R, M a(cross) and R, O d(own)', so lights are entered without these letters.
2662 02/09/1982 Figure it out / 2 Alban Half the answers in each direction contain names of numbers, which are to be divided by 2 (v. title) before entry, e.g. SLEIGHT OF HAND leads to SLFOUR OF HAND; subsidiary indications refer to the lights.
2663 09/09/1982 Ladders Araucaria Each 8-letter light is clued by a series of definitions of 4-letter rungs in a word-ladder linking the first half with the second; not all these lights are words. Twelve 6-letter lights are European capital cities, and are clued without definitions.
2664 16/09/1982 I-SPY Mass Grid is circular; half the radial lights are jumbled, the rest have MP clues. The fourth circle reads '... WITH MY LITTLE EYE SOMETHING...' and the misprinted letters spell '... BEGINNING WITH ALL BUT Q AND Y' (each of the other letters of the alphabet oc
2665 23/09/1982 Heart Transplants Duck and Hen The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.
2666 30/09/1982 Means Test Klick Main diagonal contains NAME OF THE GAME; asterisked clues lead to the meanings of Christian names, which are the lights, e.g. DOG leads to CALEB, PEARL leads to RITA.
2667 07/10/1982 Good Hunting Dimitry Answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them; unclued lights (before changes) are GAUDE, SABAOTH, JOHN, HERICHO, JUBILEE, DIMITY, BATTY THOMAS and TAILOR PAUL - the bells in THE NINE TAILORS by DOROTHY L. SAYERS (the diagonal
2668 14/10/1982 Novel Code Adam 13 characters from Dickens, clued by descriptions, lose initial and final letters (all different, providing a code) on entry, usually in jumbled form, around the perimeter. 3 clues and their lights (Dickens novels) are encoded.
2669 21/10/1982 Three in One IV Babs Each clue defines two words and hints at a third (the light); the clued words are obtained from the light by adding or inserting a letter in one case and omitting a letter in the other.
2670 28/10/1982 Round the Board Salamanca Grid is a dartboard; each of twenty 7-letter radial answers contains 4 different letters, one being repeated once and another twice, and is thus entered as a treble, a double and two singles in appropriate areas. Perimeter spells '... POINTS IN MY TARGET
2671 04/11/1982 Bridg Al & Im There are 52 grid numbers; each answer loses each occurrence of one of E, N, S, W. Grid numbers are associated with cards (in the order AS, ..., KS, AH, ..., KH, AD, ..., KD, AC, ..., KC) and hence the cards are allocated to the players. The bidding and l
2672 11/11/1982 Accidental Notes Convar One letter from each answer is altered by the addition of a sharp or flat, e.g. IRISES leads to IRI#RES; correct letters spell 'PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THE PIANIST. HE IS DOING HIS BEST'.
2673 18/11/1982 Sixes and Sevens — XII Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2674 25/11/1982 A Centennial Word Puzzle Alban Diagonals spell LEWIS CARROLL and MISCHMASCH (first published November 1882); 6 asterisked clues each consist of a letter repeated twice, with the light being the remainder of a word containing the sequence, e.g. FFF leads to CLI(FF-F)ACE.
2675 02/12/1982 A selection from the —— Phiz Unclued lights are STETS (anagram of TESTS, completing the title and giving the theme), MEAD, LAKER, DEXTER, LOCK, CHAPMAN, ROBINS, HITCH.
2676 09/12/1982 Code Sabre Each answer is encoded by moving each letter forwards (for across lights) or backwards (for down) in the alphabet the number of letters in the answer, e.g. POW (Ac.) leads to SRZ, PURANA (Dn.) leads to JOLUHU.
2677 16/12/1982 Century Duck Grid is enclosed in an oval; the central light is SIR JOHN BERRY HOBBS (b. 16/12/1882), whose century is made up of singles (I), twos (two Is), fours (IV) and sixes (VI), omitted from all the other answers on entry. All clues have a cricketing flavour.
2678 23/12/1982 SAL A MANGER Salamanca Thirty 9-letter words, clued in random order, are entered in and around numbered squares, which spell 'WHAT MEANS THIS GLORY ROUND OUR FEET?' Positioning lights have DLM or PD clues, or are Playfair-coded. KEY: Cradle song
2679 06/01/1983 Rings Corylus Clues are MP, spelling CHARACTERS OUT OF 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS' BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN; perimeter contains PIPPIN, MERRY, GOLLUM, SAURON, STRIDER, LEGOLAS, BOROMIR.
2680 13/01/1983 Klukode Klan Numerical puzzle; the letters a, b, c, ..., u (excluding i and o) stand for the integers from 1 to 19 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them.
2681 20/01/1983 Today’s the Day Egma 2 unclued lights form KEN THESE OF STAGS AT EVE, an anagram of 'THE EVE OF ST. AGNES' by KEATS; 2 other unclued lights form 'LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI'.
2682 27/01/1983 Snakes and Ladders — VIII Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
2683 03/02/1983 Half Seas Over Llig Perimeter spells BACCHANALS, ST. CATHERINE'S WHEEL, GOD ENCOMPASSETH US, the supposed origins of the public house signs 'Bag o' Nails', 'Cat and Wheel' and 'Goat and Compasses'.
2684 10/02/1983 Corsican Medals Adam Title is an anagram of A MODERN CLASSIC; each line of the title page of FOUR QUARTETS appears in the form of anagrams in the grid.
2685 17/02/1983 A Walk in the Hills Sabre Grid is blank; each row comprises a normal word and a theme-word (a Lake District summit). Clues are given in random order, and each contains a letter-mixture of a theme-word A passage contains DLM clues to 26 words which may be traced in the grid.
2686 24/02/1983 Necessary Additions Eel Into one-quarter of the answers a coin must be inserted to form the light, to which the subsidiary indication refers, e.g. PENT leads to PEDIMENT.
2687 03/03/1983 Man in the Street Bart 13 lights are 'men in the street', e.g. DO-KEITH-WNING, clued by anagrams in random order, such that the initial letters of men and streets exhaust the alphabet.
2688 10/03/1983 Logogriph Politicaster Grid is blank with co-ordinates; lights are entered letter by letter. A spiral reads 'WHERE EVERY WORD IS AT HOME TAKING ITS PLACE TO SUPPORT THE OTHERS; THE WORD NEITHER DIFFIDENT NOR OSTENTATIOUS, AN EASY COMMERCE OF THE OLD AND THE NEW' - LITTLE GIDDIN
2689 17/03/1983 St Patrick’s Day D.G. Tallis 8 across answers lose snakes on entry; the 4 unclued down lights are alternative names for the shamrock.
2690 07/04/1983 Bank Poster Buff Unclued lights are the letters of the title in the ICAO phonetic alphabet: BRAVO, ALPHA, NOVEMBER, KILO, PAPA, OSCAR, SIERRA, TANGO, ECHO, ROMEO.
2691 21/04/1983 Et tu, Cassi! Egma Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights. Outermost circle contains 'WHAT SAYS MY GENERAL? MESSALA, THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY' and third circle 'AND SAINT GEORGE TO BOOT'; fourth circle contains 6 Shakespearean characters and fifth SALUTATION.
2692 28/04/1983 Infra Dig Dimitry Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights. Outermost circle contains DECUS ET TUTAMEN; another contains SOVEREIGN and LIBRA; innermost circle continues into the middle with AS BRIGHT AS A NEW ú.
2693 05/05/1983 Dissection Duck 11 answers lose a body part on entry; 4 italicised clues lack definitions and lead to other parts of the body, entered Playfair-coded. KEY: Body-snatcher
2694 12/05/1983 Maze II Ram Grid is numbered and barred; lights may not cross bars but may turn in any direction. Each square is used exactly twice.
2695 19/05/1983 Place Setting Aelfre In each row and column a double clue leads to two answers, to be interwoven on entry, e.g. KHODJA, EASSIL lead to KEHAOSDSJIAL.
2696 26/05/1983 Three Figures in Finest Pottery Apex Clues are LL, spelling RBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBYGBBPB (the sequence of snooker pots giving a maximum 147 break).
2697 02/06/1983 Four Out Of Five — No end of a Crossword! Klick Theme-words OMAHA (PONCA, OSAGE); UTAH (DESERET, MORMON); GOLD (SPINK, CREST); JUNO (ROMAN, GROT) - all codenames for 1944 Normandy beaches (the fifth is (CROS)SWORD). Unclued lights form TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR.
2698 09/06/1983 Impartiality Phi On Election Day, all occurrences of C, CON, L, LAB are omitted, e.g. ELECTRON-VOLTS leads to EETRONVOTS.
2699 16/06/1983 __________ Ascot Only even letters of across answers and odd letters of down answers are entered; unchecked letters in order spell the title THE LISTENER CROSSWORD.
2700 23/06/1983 Theme and Variations XI Zander Theme-words CHARLES (CHAPLIN, BOYER); NEWTON (MODERN, FASHION); MARIOTTE (OAT, REMIT); GRIMM (DYER, STERNE).
2701 30/06/1983 YFSXOSETWKICQO Mass Down clues are MP; across answers are entered misprinted. Certain diagonals spell 'THE LISTENERS' BY WALTER DE LA MARE; 4 italicised clues have Playfair-coded lights. KEY: Soundwave
2702 07/07/1983 Milkman’s Dicky Eel Half the lights are terms in rhyming slang.
2703 14/07/1983 ? Mog 10 answers lose WHO on entry; unclued lights are HARTNELL, TROUGHTON, PERTWEE, BAKER, DAVISON.
2704 21/07/1983 Typecast Adam Unclued lights are synonyms of the words of the NURSERY RHYME 'Tinker, tailor, ...' - not linked with GEORGE SMILEY and LE CARR+.
2705 28/07/1983 Doubtful Starters Novamor Each across clue defines one word and indicates another subsidiarily, the two differing only in their initial letters; each letter of the alphabet appears as the initial letter of an across light exactly once.
2706 04/08/1983 What for Salamanca 12 clues leads to types of people, with the lights being the types of hawk proper to them, e.g. YEOMAN leads to GOSHAWK.
2707 11/08/1983 Twenty-five years on Corylus 11 lights are SPACEPROBES, entered upwards and clued by the dates of their launch; the first, PIONEER, was launched on 11/08/1958.
2708 18/08/1983 The Missing Hawk Babs Each light is entered in two parts, one where indicated and one elsewhere; most unlocated parts are used more than once, and one beginning (TOMA-) also serves the title.
2709 25/08/1983 Four Shuffles Swan Down answers are entered shuffled, with those of the same length shuffled in the same way.
2710 01/09/1983 The Name of the Game Klick Unclued lights are related to the children's game with CHERRY STONES: SNOUT (tinker), STARVELING (tailor), WELLINGTON (soldier), NELSON (sailor), DIVES (rich man), LAZARUS (poor man), CAREW (beggarman), GESTAS (thief).
2711 08/09/1983 Definitive Pairs Flea In each clue the subsidiary indication is to its own light, but the definition refers to another, whose grid number is congruent to its own modulo 10.
2712 15/09/1983 Anagram Pie Derek All lights except 7 are anagrams of the answers.
2713 22/09/1983 3-D Alban Grid is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube; half the lights in each direction are misprinted, with the remaining clues MP. To complete the cube, its 3 x 3 x 3 centre spells HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS.
2714 29/09/1983 Jig-Word III Eel The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one is missing and one, containing the letters C C H H I I N N N O O O O, is on its side). Clues are given in random order.
2715 06/10/1983 Implex Salamanca 12 lights are clued by their definitions in AMBROSE BIERCE'S 'DEVIL'S DICTIONARY' (given by initial letters of other clues).
2716 13/10/1983 Hydra Duck Unclued lights are placenames in novels by HARDY, entered with the letters other than the first in reverse order, e.g. CEGDIRBRETSA.
2717 20/10/1983 Amazing Romp Grid is a maze, with lights running sideways and down (but not up) and finishing at dead-ends; main diagonal is HAMPTON COURT.
2718 27/10/1983 B-M Hand in Glove There are two identical grids, with double clues for each location; unclued lights are previous winners of the Booker-McConnell prize.
2719 03/11/1983 A Timely Reminder Smokey Each subsidiary indication leads to the light with an extra letter; these spell 'PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER'. Theme-words GUNPOWDER (CHARCOAL, SULPHUR, SALTPETRE); TREASON (ATONERS, SENATOR); PLOT (PATCH, STEEP).
2720 10/11/1983 Ploughed and Scattered Egma 14 answers lose BA or BSC on entry (with letters not necessarily consecutive).
2721 08/12/1983 Advent Calendar Phi 12 clues are LL, spelling ISAIAH XL V. III; the other 24 clues each lead to lights containing extra letters, spelling 'PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD' - the positions of these lights are to be determined.
2722 15/12/1983 ______________ Ascot The first 17 down clues are LL, spelling 'THE DIARY OF A NOBODY'; the remainder have misprinted lights, with misprints spelling GEORGE AND WEEDON GROSSMITH. Across clues contain superfluous words, forming 'I AM A POOR MAN, BUT I WOULD GLADLY GIVE TEN SHIL
2723 22/12/1983 The ____ Christmas Message of _______ Apex Clues are LL, spelling 'BETTER THAN LIGHT AND SAFER THAN A KNOWN WAY', by MINNIE HASKINS (unclued), quoted by KING GEORGE SIXTH (unclued) in NINETEEN THIRTY-NINE (formed by shaded squares).
2724 22/12/1983 Smokey’s Christmas Party Smokey There are 4 types of clue: Pin the Tail on the Donkey (creatures with last letters misplaced), Pass the Parcel (entered without initial and final letters), Hunt the Slipper (12 lights have an extra letter, spelling SLEDGE-RUNNER) and Nuts and Crackers (an
2725 05/01/1984 Veq Bemb Sabre All lights are encoded using a substitution cipher; unclued lights are then characters from ANIMAL FARM by GEORGE ORWELL (which appear as the encoded form of four lights). Title is encoded form of KEY TEXT.
2726 12/01/1984 Watersingers Alexis Theme-words WORDSWORTH (GRASMERE, ANNETTE, LUCY); COLERIDGE (HIGHGATE, MARINER, OPIUM); SOUTHEY (GRETA, ESPRIELLA, NELSON).
2727 19/01/1984 Phox’s Almanac for 1984 Phox 12 clues are months; their lights are the saints whose days are in the months concerned, with the dates being the grid numbers.
2728 26/01/1984 Head-Hunting — XIII Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'TO TRAMPLE ROUND MY FALLEN HEAD'.
2729 02/02/1984 Off with their heads! Machiavelli Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented initially by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light.
2730 09/02/1984 Threes Away Babs Each answer loses three identical letters on entry, e.g. TUATARA leads to TUTR.
2731 16/02/1984 Cross-reference Essem Each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to another of the same length.
2732 23/02/1984 Letter for a friend Adam In 14 cases an answer contains the name of a Listener setter, to be replaced on entry by a letter, e.g. PETROLOGY leads to PETROAY; these letters spell SIR EDWARD ELGAR.
2733 01/03/1984 Klukode II Klan Numerical puzzle; the letters a, b, c, ..., z (excluding o) stand for the integers from 1 to 25 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them.
2734 08/03/1984 Pick of the Month Apex Clues are LL, spelling 'THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS': POEMS SELECTED BY DERWENT MAY (1 Down).
2735 15/03/1984 Missing Masterpieces Egma 11 answers lose MA or MSC on entry (with letters not necessarily consecutive).
2736 22/03/1984 Red Grouse Alexis Theme-words CANCER (LIBRA, ARIES); WARD (DAVID, GRIEVE); FIRST (RATE, BEGOTTEN); CIRCLE (CAUCASIAN, CHALK).
2737 29/03/1984 Two across Jago Clues are DLM, but 10 answers are synonyms of the lights, which are of the same length and are all fish.
2738 05/04/1984 Clip on tee peg II Zander All lights are misprinted once, but are still words.
2739 12/04/1984 Force of numbers Klick Unclued lights are nicknames of American army divisions, whose numbers are their grid numbers.
2740 19/04/1984 Eddic Novamor Unclued lights are names of colleagues in Chambers and editors of the Dictionary.
2741 26/04/1984 Play for Today Corylus 6 asterisked clues have Playfair-coded lights. KEY: April 26th 1984
2742 03/05/1984 Dicky birds Alban Some of the across answers are entered in rhyming slang, e.g. SKINT leads to BORACIC.
2743 10/05/1984 Inside out III Duck Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear.
2744 17/05/1984 Autoplayfair Adam Three of the 6-letter lights in the right half of the grid are the Playfair-coded forms of three in the left half; the unclued 1 down has its encoded form in the right. KEY: Intercom
2745 24/05/1984 Main Connexions Essem Theme-words AGUE (FEVER, MALARIA); FOLIO (OCTAVO, QUARTO); MANTEAU (ROQUELAURE, PELERINE); CULLIS (BROTH, GUTTER) - all can be preceded by PORT-.
2746 31/05/1984 Heroscope Mass Grid is circular with 12 sectors, each having a triple clue with lights entered letter by letter. Two circles contain heroic nouns and adjectives; a third, HEREWARD THE WAKE, ROBIN HOOD; others, 'HAIL, YE HEROES', 'DOUGHTY DEEDS MY LADY PLEASE', 'WE'LL WE
2747 07/06/1984 Contrai Sabre Half the answers are contracted by omitting repeated letters, with subsidiary indications referring to the lights.
2748 14/06/1984 One over the eight Hen 9-letter lights are clued by anagrams of themselves added to an alcoholic drink, e.g. 'Fair plonk, Cathie' leads to KNIPHOFIA (+ CLARET); a one-word definition of each such across light has been added to the clue immediately before or after it.
2749 21/06/1984 Miss Alphacode Amicus A sequence, treated as cyclic, is formed by placing the codeword in front of the rest of the alphabet in order; answers are encoded by moving the nth letter of the word forward n places in the sequence. KEY: Stylographic
2750 28/06/1984 Ring out, Wild Bells! Dimitry Answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them; unclued lights are WILD(E) BELL(E)S, i.e. female characters from works of OSCAR WILDE (unchecked letters at top of first column and bottom of last), entered with an E missing.
2751 05/07/1984 Justyn Print — VII Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'The Bankrupt' leads to OWEN LOTS.
2752 12/07/1984 The red house Jago Clues are DLM, with ARAMIS, ATHOS and PORTHOS unclued; in each of the nine 4 x 4 squares the central 2 x 2 square is occupied by a single large letter, spelling ONE FOR ALL.
2753 19/07/1984 Kensington Oval Mime Grid represents the Royal Albert Hall, with the Promenade area unshaded; lights or parts thereof falling in the Promenade area are jumbled. The central part of the grid contains a list of composers and artists from the current Proms season; the perimeter
2754 26/07/1984 Encore Jude Grid is hexagonal with 7-letter lights entered in and around numbered hexagons (spelling 'YOU ARE MY HONEY, HONEYSUCKLE, I AM THE BEE' - A.H.F.). Each clue is lacking the central letter of a word of either the definition or the subsidiary indication. A co KEY: Derv Fogs Jynx Lump With Zack
2755 02/08/1984 Significant figures Corylus Answers are entered numerically, e.g. MASH leads to 131198; diagonals consist entirely of 1s, being the significant figures of ONE NINTH (unclued).
2756 09/08/1984 7 x 6 Alban 7 groups of 6 clues are given, the lights in each group being of the same length and in the same direction; other clues are numbered normally. Diagonals contain 'THE HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY', with DOUGLAS ADAMS and DON'T PANIC unclued.
2757 16/08/1984 … but not hung Phi Different rules of entry apply in each quarter of the grid: normal, reversed, with vowels removed and with consonants.
2758 23/08/1984 Eightsome Reels Essem All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares.
2759 30/08/1984 Mixprints Mass Half the clues are MP; the remaining lights are misprinted. Each answer loses a letter each time it occurs, spelling TO DERRICK SOMERSET MACNUTT, ALIAS XIMENES.
2760 06/09/1984 Diminishing returns ffancy All answers lose a letter on entry; these form six unclued lights each of which has also lost a letter: (S)AMURAI, VIRTU(E)S, S(T)ARS, H(I)LLS, DIAL(S), SEA(S); these lost letters form the seventh unclued light SISTE(R)S, whose lost letter is entered in t
2761 13/09/1984 Place your bets Hen Grid represents a steeplechase course with 8 horses, who mostly change lane after each fence and drop out one by one; across lights follow their paths.
2762 20/09/1984 Take three or four Adam Numerical puzzle; clues are quadruples of numbers such that the sum of any three, or of all four, is a perfect square, together with the five square roots.
2763 27/09/1984 Plus ça change Midas Some answers are lengthened or shortened by adding or subtracting letters to form the light, which is a synonym, e.g. LIT leads to ILLUMINATED.
2764 04/10/1984 Missing Links XIV Zander 16 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2765 11/10/1984 Segregation Duck Across clues with lights beginning with a vowel are segregated from those with lights beginning with a consonant; order within each group is random. Letters of down lights are segregated into vowels and consonants with either group coming first.
2766 18/10/1984 ‘______ ______’ Salamanca Grid comprises 38 circles each surrounded by 6 triangles; lights are 7- or 8-letter, with initial and/or final letters entered in circles (forming symbols for chemical elements with appropriate atomic numbers) and remainder (given by subsidiary indication
2767 25/10/1984 Bird talk Phalarope 9 lettered clues contain jumbled birds' names, suggesting 9 methods of entry of answers: TERN (reverse), ROBIN (insert ROB), DUCK (do nothing), KNOT (anagram), TURNSTONE (reverse ST), WAGTAIL (reverse last two letters), CROSSBILL (reverse first two letter
2768 01/11/1984 Bridge problem Virgilius 13 unchecked letters on each edge of the grid represent the hands of a bridge deal (where A = Ace, B = King, ..., M = 2), with suits in normal SHDC order; the best contract North and South can make is needed.
2769 08/11/1984 Get the message Bufo In 20 asterisked clues, half have lights entered normally and half in reverse; other lights are jumbled. Perimeter consists of unchecked letters and spells THE OTHER FOUR LINES OF UNCHECKED LETTERS ALL SPELL WORDS (enabling their completion).
2770 15/11/1984 Small Change III Klick Each light is formed from the answer either by transposing two letters or by moving one letter.
2771 22/11/1984 Decal II Hotspur Twenty 10-letter lights are entered as perimeters of 4 x 3 rectangles and clued in alphabetical order; there are 18 positioning lights.
2772 29/11/1984 Chips with everything Dougal Clues are grouped together in fours and run together in paragraphs; each clue contains letter-mixtures of the light and of a one-word definition. Reading from top right corner to centre to top left spells HEIRS 'N' GRACES; unclued lights are Graces (U.K.
2773 06/12/1984 Double wedge patience Leon Card puzzle; the pack is dealt into two wedges, in whose rows and columns products of ranks are given and products of suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7) are clued. The object is to remove pairs of the same colour, one from each wedge, totalling 13 (Kings
2774 13/12/1984 Edict Eel Top, central and bottom rows (unclued) spell DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON - DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (he died 13/12/1784). All lights are misprinted; correct letters spell 'TO MAKE DICTIONARIES IS DULL WORK' (Across) and 'WORDS ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF EARTH'
2775 20/12/1984 Smokey’s Christmas Party II Smokey There are 4 types of clue: Fairy Whispers (definition and answer are misprinted but light is still a word); Forfeits (LL, spelling POSTMAN'S KNOCK); Turkey Sandwiches (subsidiary indication ignores TR); Mince Pies (light is anagram of answer).
2776 20/12/1984 A double harness Leiruza Lights are entered along two knight's tours; some diagonals are given as OUR HEARTIEST GREETINGS TO ALL.
2777 03/01/1985 15 Down Ploutos 6 unclued across lights are past editors of The Times (= The Thunderer = THOR), celebrating its 200th anniversary; Unclued down lights contain two Cs and are still words if they are removed: ACCURATE, BACCY, CALCINE, CRESCENT and SCONCE.
2778 10/01/1985 Crosslights Dimitry Grid is blank; clues are paired, each leading to two intersecting lights, with the subsidiary indication to one omitting the letter of intersection. Two central 13-letter lights, LEVEL CROSSING and EAVESDROPPING, establish the orientation of the grid.
2779 17/01/1985 Clerimuse Babs Narrative involving various clerihews.
2780 24/01/1985 What’s my line? Hellebore Across clues are given in random order except that those with lights in the same row are paired together.
2781 31/01/1985 St Paul’s Mass Grid represents St. Paul's Cathedral (dome and body); clues to the body are MP, with unclued lights all linked with the Cathedral; clues to the dome lead to 5-letter jumbled radial lights, with subsidiary indications leading to the jumbled forms. Circling
2782 07/02/1985 Gloucester Fabrizzio Answers to asterisked clues are entered with two letters transposed, the two being separated by a single letter; these single letters spell 'PLUCK OUT HIS EYES'. Other answers lose Is on entry.
2783 14/02/1985 Chicken Pickin’ Mime Clues are mainly LL, spelling 'WHEN EV'RY FOWL COMETH TO CHOOSE HER MAKE'; other clues lead to birds, entered as anagrams, and initial letters of these clues may be rearranged to form VALENTINE (the heading in Brewer under which the quotation appears).
2784 21/02/1985 Mythical Monster sPHinx There are 5 types of light entry: Hydra's Head (with initial letter doubled); Cyclops (with all but one I removed); Medusa (with initial letter removed); Gorgon's Head (reversed); Sinis (in two halves divided by a letter from a crossing light). Four monst
2785 28/02/1985 Leap year Hand in Glove Every fourth letter in each answer is replaced by its successor in the alphabet.
2786 07/03/1985 Senario Alban There are 5 clue types: normal, LL, PD, misprinted and Playfair. Each is used 6 times (including both types of misprint); perimeter reads 'IT'S JUST SIX OF ONE AND HALF A DOZEN OF THE OTHER' - CAPTAIN MARRYAT. KEY: Pirate
2787 14/03/1985 ‘An otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative’ Adam Narrative concerning The MIKADO (first production 14/03/1885); perimeter reads 'THE TASK OF FILLING UP THE BLANKS I'D RATHER LEAVE TO YOU'.
2788 21/03/1985 Primes Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these. Each base from 2 to 10 is used for one row and one column.
2789 28/03/1985 Three Ways Alcuin Grid is hexagonal in shape, comprising equilateral triangles; lights run from left to right in one of three directions. Alternate rows contain 'THERE BE TRIPLE WAYS TO TAKE OF THE EAGLE OR THE SNAKE OR THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID'.
2790 04/04/1985 Exams all border scamps do Apex Perimeter (whose unchecked letters may be arranged to form the title) contains 10 Listener setters, each associated with an unclued light: ADAM (BEDE), APEX (CORNER), ASCOT (RACES), BART (LIONEL), DUCK (DONALD), EEL (CONGER), MASS (OBSERVATION), SABRE (DA
2791 11/04/1985 Sixes and Sevens XIII Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2792 18/04/1985 20, 11Dn, 8, 34, 25Dn/9, 37, 11Ac Jago Unclued lights are as listed in title together with PIECES OF EIGHT: (TRE)LAWNEY, H(A)WKINS, (S)ILVER, G(U)NN, (RE)DRUTH, H(IS)PANIOLA, SMO(L)LETT, H(AND)S.
2793 25/04/1985 Pieces of eight Smokey The eighteen 8-letter lights can be split into two 4-letter words, e.g. PASS-OVER; the first is entered in the position indicated, the second elsewhere.
2794 02/05/1985 Cyphersquare Centigram 14 asterisked clues have misprinted lights, with correct letters spelling 'A LETTER TO A LADY'. The 36 unchecked letters forming the perimeter of the central 10 x 10 square, if written in columns in a 6 x 6 square and read in rows, form 'BEHOLD THE BRIGHT
2795 09/05/1985 Hem Essem 10 unclued lights (and title) form words when preceded by MAY-. Each clue has a misprint in the definition, spelling 'COLD MAY AND WINDY, BARN FILLETH UP FINELY'.
2796 16/05/1985 Backtracking Goujeers Each answer is divided in two somewhere and the second half is entered in reverse.
2797 23/05/1985 Dube Crossor Mascot There are two identical 9 x 9 grids, with clues at the same location paired. Each letter of the alphabet is paired with its symmetric opposite (AZ, BY, CX, ..., MN); in each double clue one answer loses a letter-pair on entry, with each grid losing the en
2798 30/05/1985 Playmates Klick 14 answers are entered misprinted to form playwrights.
2799 06/06/1985 Have Patience Phi Apart from top row, grid is divided into two identical halves; down clues at the same location are paired. Across lights are all 7-letter words having lost their initial letters, which are all C, D, H or S; clues are in random order within suits, and 'red
2800 13/06/1985 Counterfoil Eyeline Lights with an even number of letters are clued normally; those with an odd number comprise two words overlapping at the central letter, and have one-word clues combining definitions of the two halves, e.g. CROSS = counter, SWORD = foil; EE = eye, EL = li
2801 20/06/1985 Round the Board II Salamanca Grid is a dartboard; each of twenty 7-letter radial answers contains 4 different letters, one being repeated once and another twice, and is thus entered as a treble, a double and two singles in appropriate areas. Perimeter plus bullseye spells 'SHOOT NOT
2802 27/06/1985 Unfair Play? Sabre 8 answers have a pair of consecutive letters Playfair-coded, with subsidiary indications referring to the forms to be entered. 4 unclued lights are Playfair-coded: (S)WINGBOAT, (D)ODGEMS, (H)ELTERSKELTER, (C)OCKSHY - all (F)unfair plays. KEY: Pneumogastric
2803 04/07/1985 Close of Play Ix Initial letters of superfluous words in across clues spell WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; letters omitted from across answers spell 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA', while those inserted in down lights, read across the grid, spell 'THIS GREAT SOLEMNITY' (the closing phrase o
2804 11/07/1985 Multiplication Ploutos Answers clash on main diagonals; multiplying the numerical values and working modulo 26 gives the way to resolve the conflicts so that all lights are words.
2805 18/07/1985 Whodunnit Mime 11 lights are fictional detectives; initial and final letters of their clues complete the unclued lights JEFFERSON HOPE and ENOCH J. DREBBER, murderer and victim in 'A Study in Scarlet' (given as S-A STUDY-CARLET).
2806 25/07/1985 … or long the haven of ___________ Dimitry Across clues are LL; down clues have subsidiary indications leading to the light with a superfluous letter. A substitution cipher is obtained whereby each superfluous letter is encoded by the letter omitted from the across light crossing the down light co
2807 01/08/1985 Double or Quit Novamor All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise around numbered squares; odd-numbered answers are alternately 7-letter (entered with central letter doubled) and 9=letter (entered with central letter removed).
2808 08/08/1985 Lord Dunsany’s Problem Foxglove Top and bottom halves of the grid correspond to White and Black; clues to symmetrically oppostite lights are paired, with those for Black lights requiring the removal or insertion of B, K, N, P, Q or R. Central 8 x 8 square is a chessboard with pieces giv
2809 15/08/1985 The forty-five Nibor Each clue has an extra letter, which must be inserted in the answer; these spell PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters long).
2810 22/08/1985 Battle Royal Duck Puzzle marks 500th anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth; in asterisked clues, definitions lead to words containing ENG (= England), replaced by a horse (as given by subsidiary indication). Four clues lacking definitions lead to BALIOS, BRONTE, CARMAN, LA KEY: Gift horse
2811 29/08/1985 Snakes and Ladders IX Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
2812 05/09/1985 On a plate Mass Definitions in 14 clues lack a letter; these may be rearranged as DAGUERROTYPES. Other clues are normal but parts of the answers must be replaced by antonyms, e.g. PALIMPSEST leads to PASTIFFSEST.
2813 12/09/1985 Infernal Patience Leon Card puzzle: 51 cards of the pack are dealt overlappingly into the letters HELL, and clues are given in rows and columns to products of ranks and suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4). Uncovered cards are turned face up; the object is to build uncovered card
2814 19/09/1985 Abbs and Reviations Egma Most down and some across clues are normal; others are one-word definitions of words with abbreviations in Chambers' - the abbreviation is to be entered at the correct location and the remainder elsewhere.
2815 26/09/1985 Hexagonal Bart Grid comprises hexagons; lights run in three directions and are jumbled. Alternate lines spell 'FOR SO WORK THE HONEY-BEES, CREATURES THAT BY A RULE IN NATURE TEACH THE ACT OF ORDER TO A PEOPLED KINGDOM'.
2816 03/10/1985 Square cut Swan Perimeter of central 10 x 10 square contains in random order the words of 'WHICH TAKEN AT THE FLOOD LEADS ON TO FORTUNE'.
2817 10/10/1985 To Put It Bluntly Corylus Grid is blank with clues given in normal order; all lights suffer from POINTLESSNESS (1 across, entered as POITL). Some lights are unaffected, e.g. POCHARD; others disappear altogether, e.g. NEWNESS.
2818 17/10/1985 Culture Club Job 27 answers are entered lacking vowels; their clues contain a superfluous word or phrase, leading to a synonym made up of the removed vowels and the consonants CLTR.
2819 24/10/1985 Play for Today Amicus 17 unidentified clues are LL, spelling MEASURE FOR MEASURE; in the remaining clues the word defined contains a measure, which must be replaced by another on entry, e.g. TROUNCE leads to TRPOLE.
2820 31/10/1985 Literally Fowl Miguel Some clues are DLM; 7 lack definitions and lead to pairs of birds' names, entered next to each other. 13 lights are adjusted on the basis of phrases '... for ...', e.g. SCANDALMONGER leads to THESCHOOLMONGER.
2821 07/11/1985 Coexistence Virgilius Grid is blank, to be occupied by two overlapping solutions, one using bars and the other black squares. Clues are given in the normal order for each solution but are mixed together.
2822 14/11/1985 Six Authors Play Fair in Search of a Character Adam Two 12-letter lights are Playfair-coded; 6 lights are forenames associated with the codeword by 6 authors, clued by anagrams of the authors and titles, separated by superfluous words whose initial letters spell BUTLER. KEY: Lambert
2823 21/11/1985 ‘________’ (a Spot the Theme Quiz) Apex Title is given by 8 shaded unchecked squares. Clues are DLM, paired as questions and answers (across to him, down to her). 8 unclued lights contain male and female names next to each other, e.g. S-AVA-GENE-SS.
2824 28/11/1985 Literally speaking Ascot All lights are misprinted; correct letters from 24 italicised clues can be arranged to form LITERALLY SPEAKING BY ASCOT.
2825 05/12/1985 Hour-glass XII Zander Across clues are DLM; down lights are jumbled. Grid is lower half of an hour-glass and its contents may be arranged as 'AND ROUND BENEATH IT, TIME IN HOURS, DAYS, YEARS DRIV'N BY THE SPHERES LIKE A VAST SHADOW MOV'D, IN WHICH THE WORLD AND ALL HER TRAIN W
2826 12/12/1985 Skelekode Klan Numerical puzzle; grid is blank to be completed with black squares, with one grid number given. The letters a, b, c, ..., z (excluding i and o) stand for the integers from 2 to 25 in an order to be determined, and clues and light-lengths are in term
2827 19/12/1985 Carol Festival Mass Clues are DLM (with lights misprinted), Playfair, MP (with correct letters spelling I BID YOU MY SOLVERS BE MERRY) or carol extracts acting as subsidiary indications to non-words. Unclued lights FLESH (BODY, SKIN); WINE (RUDESHEIMER, SHERRIS-SACK); PINELO
2828 19/12/1985 Smokey’s Christmas Afternoon Smokey There are 4 types of clue: Unwrapping the Presents (AD is omitted on entry); A Generous Amount of Port (lacking definitions with lights all ports, left unfinished); Extra Guests (either the definition or the light appears with an extra letter); Merry-maki
2829 02/01/1986 Heart Transplants II Duck & Hen The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.
2830 09/01/1986 Wallflowers Dimitry Lights are entered in and around numbered squares; those in centre are 9-letter, with subsidiary indications omitting the central letters, while those on edges and in corners are 8- and 7-letter. A knight's tour of numbered squares, beginning in the centr
2831 16/01/1986 Topped and Tailed IV Klick Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.
2832 23/01/1986 Reinvigoration Phi 26 clues are MP with correct letters spelling THE BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE; the other ten answers receive a 'blood transfusion' on entry, whereby one of A, B, AB and O is replaced by another, e.g. CRABBED leads to CROBED.
2833 30/01/1986 Gazetteer vol. II Ploutos 12 unidentified clues lead to words forming half the name of an English town, the light being the other half, e.g. DRY leads to DODDINGTON. All towns begin with D, E or F.
2834 06/02/1986 Chainwork Law Lights form a chain in which intersects the next; clues are double, with one normal and one DLM in each pair.
2835 13/02/1986 ‘Answers to …’ Aelfre 13 italicised clues each indicate two words with something in common, containing a dog's name to be removed on entry, e.g. GLASS, POTTERY lead to GLASTERY. In 30 clues subsidiary indications lead to the lights with extra letters, spelling '... THE NAME OF
2836 20/02/1986 Point-to-Point ffancy Initial directions of lights are given, but when a Point (N, E, S, W, NE, NW, SE, SW) is reached the light continues in that direction. 18 asterisked clues are DLM and have lights which do not change direction.
2837 27/02/1986 Cook’s Tour XV Zander 16 asterisked clues contain letter-mixtures of items of food or drink.
2838 06/03/1986 one Sabre 6 rows each contain 6 shaded squares; if these are rearranged they form 'AND FROM THE CROSSE-ROW PLUCKES THE LETTER G'; 12 across answers lose the letter G on entry.
2839 13/03/1986 Ionic Capitals Corylus Unclued lights (in order) spell a quotation in Greek and Latin by PETRONIUS (anagram of initial letters of lights with DLM clues); 15 MP clues spell ONE FIVE SEVEN SIX, the number of the page in Chambers' 1983 containing the Greek alphabet.
2840 20/03/1986 Spoiled for Choice II Jago Each square is bisected, alternately horizontally and vertically, giving a choice for entry in every other square.
2841 27/03/1986 Pythagorean DiGiTallis Numerical puzzle, with clues Pythagorean triples with the third member prime (or in one case the square of a prime); unclued lights are triangular Pythagorean numbers.
2842 03/04/1986 Jig-Word IV Eel The completed grid, less bars and numbers, is given in 16 fragments (of which one is missing and one, containing the letters A I I I I N O O O U X Z Z, is on its side). Clues are given in random order.
2843 10/04/1986 Octacryptogram Adam A cryptogram is formed by writing in two rows a codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order, with each letter encoding that above or below it; the four 8-letter lights each comprise 4 corresponding pairs. The six 6-letter lights are entered enc KEY: Slack
2844 17/04/1986 Out and About Mass 8 italicised clues are normal; in others, the definition leads to a word containing a forename, to be removed to form the light, to which the subsidiary indication refers, while a letter-mixture of the forename appears in the clue.
2845 24/04/1986 – ———? Apex There are 4 types of clue: Playfair, MP, PD and LL (spelling the letters following the codewords in the Playfair codesquare, with the clue giving W lacking definition to indicate that it begins the title). KEY: Caxton's devilry
2846 01/05/1986 Roots and Fractions Gos Unclued lights are the monetary units of 5 African countries and the corresponding lower denominations.
2847 08/05/1986 Light Deduction Essem Most clues are MP, spelling TAKE ANOTHER WORD FROM THE COMBINED ANSWERS; this refers to the 8 lights obtained from 8 double DLM clues (in which one answer refers to the light at the location indicated and the other refers to one elsewhere), e.g. SNOWDROP,
2848 15/05/1986 Double Masquerade Duck Unclued lights, in pairs, provide synonyms for Cornwall and 7 towns therein: SALT, BARRIER (Cornwall); RECENT, WHARF (Newquay); CENT, PITY (Redruth); FORD, SPAN (Wadebridge); DOLICHOTIS, HEAVEN (Marazion); HAMPER, CROP (Padstow); AWRY, ENDURED (Camborne);
2849 22/05/1986 The Labours of Hercules — I ‘The Nemean Lion’ Phi Grid is blank; each occurrence of LION or LEO in an answer is replaced by its Zodiacal sign. One such square is surrounded by HERCULES (as he strangled the lion).
2850 29/05/1986 Linking Misses Smokey Down lights, all 8-letter, are jumbled except for their initial letters, which spell PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW; six of the other rows consist of 4 girls' names, clued by subsidiary indications run together.
2851 05/06/1986 Give and Take IV Bart To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Diagonals spell 'SO ALL MY BEST IS DRESSING OLD WORDS NEW'.
2852 12/06/1986 My Dear Watson Mime Unclued lights form 6 approximate homophones of 'Elementary': ''ELL! A MANTA RAY!'; ELLA MONTEREY; YELLOW ENTRY; HOLLOW MEN TREE; 'SELL 'EM AINTREE'; HOLLOW MENTALLY.
2853 19/06/1986 Theme and Variations — XII Zander Theme-words SELHURST (HUSTLERS, RUTHLESS); ROKER (TORPEDO, SKATE); UPTON (ALOFT, FASHION); HOME (ALEC, DOUGLAS).
2854 26/06/1986 A Four Square Problem Adam Numerical puzzle; clues are quadruples of numbers such that the sum of any two is a perfect square, and the six square roots.
2855 03/07/1986 A Couple of Drop-outs — II Ascot Each answer loses two letters to form the light.
2856 10/07/1986 Game Frame Salamanca Grid represents a snooker table; lights travel in any of eight directions, with rebounds at cushions. Balls on the table spell COLOUR-BLINDNESS; six lights end with their last two letters in a pocket, spelling AMOUNT SCORED.
2857 17/07/1986 Jay Walker Klick 16 answers are entered misprinted to become poets (title is from GAY, WALLER).
2858 24/07/1986 All-Inclusive Corylus In several lights apostrophes, hyphens and spaces occupy squares of their own.
2859 31/07/1986 Take Your Pick — III Ploutos Whenever an across light meets a down light they disagree, but by taking one of the two alternatives it is possible to construct a perfect diagram.
2860 07/08/1986 Spin Goujeers All clues concern cricket and particle physics; down clues are MP, spelling 'PITCH AND A BLINDING LIGHT'. Unclued across lights are MCCINSTMCCIN and RMCCLATIVITY (i.e., EINSTEIN and RELATIVITY, with E = MC¦).
2861 14/08/1986 One Over The Eight — II Hen 9-letter lights are clued by anagrams of themselves added to an alcoholic drink, e.g. 'Vin de table, Barry' leads to AVERTIBLE (+ BRANDY); a one-word definition of each such light has been added to one of the clues in the same direction.
2862 21/08/1986 Double, Double Politicaster The 4 unbarred columns, when 'doubled' (i.e. folded upon themselves) and placed beside the unclued across light, form a 6 x 9 rectangle spelling (boustrophedon) 'THOU WITH CAREFUL BROW SITTING ALONE RECEIVED HAST THIS MESSAGE'.
2863 28/08/1986 Torquemada Revisited Amicus Clues are lines of doggerel containing definitions of the lights.
2864 04/09/1986 The Labours of Hercules — II The Lernean Hydra Phi Most answers have their head (initial letter) removed and replaced by two others to form a new word, e.g. ACETIC leads to DOCETIC; these clues contain brief definitions of the lights. One-ninth of the answers are entered with their heads buried somewhere
2865 11/09/1986 Sock it to me, Mrs. B! Dimitry Perimeter lights are in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary; other lights are entered with initial and final letters Playfair-coded, using different codewords for across and down lights. KEY: Bluestocking, lexicography
2866 18/09/1986 Musical Charades Nibor 20 answers, when paired, form the Christian names of 10 composers; the corresponding pairs of lights form anagrams of their surnames.
2867 25/09/1986 Double Magic Square Bedecked — II Leon Card puzzle; the pack is dealt into two magic squares, one 6 x 6 and one 4 x 4. Each rank corresponds to a letter, and DLM clues are given to anagrams of rows, columns and diagonals; suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) are clued in base 5.
2868 02/10/1986 A Double Harness Leiruza Lights are entered along two knight's tours; an independent knight's tour spells 'WHEN FIRST WE PRACTISE TO DECEIVE'.
2869 09/10/1986 So It Is! Casein 10 MP clues lead to RISHI, VISTA, LEISURE, SCHISM, DISC, BISQUE, NOIST, CRISP, MALISON and FISHY, which show how to enter the remaining lights, e.g. HORRIBLY becomes HOHIHIIQUELY.
2870 16/10/1986 Border Control Duck Down lights are jumbled; 6 asterisked across clues each define two words and give a subsidiary indication to the light (the two words less a word spanning their border, e.g. CREE(P ICT)ERINE). The 6 removed words (MAC, JOCK, PICT, IAN, DUUNCAN, SCOT) are
2871 23/10/1986 Crossing Code Sabre A simple substitution cipher is used: 23 normal clues have encoded lights, while19 encoded clues (consisting of definitions only) have normal lights.
2872 30/10/1986 Clip on Tee Peg — III Zander All lights are misprinted once, but are still words.
2873 06/11/1986 Call My Bluff Hellebore One-third of the clues define the lights, one-third define misprints of the lights and one-third define words which rhyme with the lights; in all cases subsidiary indications lead to the lights.
2874 13/11/1986 Decal — III Hotspur Twenty 10-letter lights are entered as perimeters of 4 x 3 rectangles and clued in alphabetical order; there are 18 positioning lights.
2875 20/11/1986 Unique! Eel 8 clues each lead to two answers differing only in an unchecked letter; the unused letters in order spell QUESTION.
2876 27/11/1986 All in the Game Salamanca Each clue, as well as leading to the answer, contains a hidden or jumbled beast which indicates how to change the answer to form the light, e.g. DITHYRAMB, HYRAX lead to DITAMB.
2877 04/12/1986 Magichex Law Grid is hexagonal, with 6-letter lights entered around shaded hexagons, which must contain the numbers from 1 to 19 so as to form the unique magic hexagon. Clues are in two sets, numbered and lettered; the answer to each numbered clue is rearranged and on
2878 11/12/1986 012345 6789A’B CDEF Kea Numerical puzzle in hexadecimal, with one letter standing for each of the 16 digits throughout; grid reads 'THANK HEAVEN, AT LAST THE SUMMER'S DONE' - THOMAS CONSTABLE, 'OLD OCTOBER'.
2879 18/12/1986 RF RS DI LD EZ GE HA IE EO Mass Grid is circular with radial lights having misprinted clues. Innermost circle spells 'A ROUND WHITE PUDDING' - definition in Chambers' of SNOWBALL. One circle contains 4-letter words whose letters are among those of SNOWBALL, while correct letters in clue KEY: Push me and I grow
2880 01/01/1987 The Morning After the Night Before Phi 12 'Revellers' double clues have pairs of lights entered around lettered squares; one light in each pair has a letter omitted, spelling 'RING IN THE NEW'. 4 unclued lights are drunken Scots (e.g. IHMHAS); in other clues subsidiary indications include extr
2881 08/01/1987 Teamwise Fabrizzio Across clues are LL, spelling 'AN ANAGRAM MADE FLESH', providing the subsidiary indication for 7 asterisked clues, whose lights are anagrams of synonyms of FLESH.
2882 15/01/1987 Theme and Variations Jago Answers are entered BOUSTROPHEDON (unclued); other unclued lights are the TRIONES, each ending with a star to form the Plough.
2883 22/01/1987 Homage to Tracer Adam Lights are unclued rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder; 12-letter lights in the boundary are formed by juxtaposing two rungs, e.g. BATTER/ING-RAM.
2884 29/01/1987 Just Do As You're Told — II Klick Each across clue contains a superfluous word, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'Partitional plates upset pet' leads to SEPTAL, TOUT (= pet), giving SEPAL.
2885 05/02/1987 Eucalyptus? Calmac Across answers are beheaded on entry; initial letters removed spell MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. 4 down lights are Playfair-coded; title suggests (S)TUART (she was beheaded 08/02/1587). KEY: Fotheringay
2886 12/02/1987 Why not …? Apex Double clues have answers each omitting two letters on entry, spelling 'NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS SINGLE; ALL THINGS, BY A LAW DIVINE, IN ONE ANOTHER'S BEING MINGLE. (Why not I with thine?)'
2887 19/02/1987 Rings Mime Grid is circular with jumbled radial 6-letter lights; 10 satellites of SATURN appear in circles.
2888 26/02/1987 Anniversary puzzle Smokey Clues are in trios, and their answers lose CHI, K and M respectively, to mark the 3,000th issue of The Listener.
2889 05/03/1987 Head-hunting — XIV Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'AND FORWARD BENDS HIS HEAD'.
2890 12/03/1987 Walkabout Mass Grid is circular; clues to radial lights are in fours. One clue in each four lacks a definition, these lights being wanderers; wanderers are entered where indicated, but other lights need not be.
2891 19/03/1987 Cunning Fox Piccadilly Initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE, ANIMALS IN SYMBOLISM. 8 answers are replaced by the animals symbolising the appropriate qualities, e.g. MAJESTY leads to EAGLE.
2892 26/03/1987 On record Aelfre Grid represents a record groove. Spiral lights all omit P (with 'THE MISSING PAGE' unclued); radial lights all omit A, B, AB or O (with '(The) BLOOD DONOR' unclued); scratches spell '(The) RADIO HAM'. Label in centre is to be completed with TONY HANCOCK.
2893 02/04/1987 Three Star Magic Leon Card puzzle; four cards are removed from the pack and remainder dealt into three magic 'octograms'. Suits (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4) are clued by differences in base 5; each rank corresponds to a letter and clues are given to anagrams of lights.
2894 09/04/1987 Schizologia Amicus Each answer is entered in two halves, the first where indicated and the second elsewhere. Initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell 'I DO PERCEIVE HERE A DIVIDED DUTY' - WM. SHAKESPEARE.
2895 16/04/1987 Completely Fair Play Alcuin Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; all lights are Playfair-coded using a 6 x 6 codesquare, entered in three directions. KEY: Cobalt 60
2896 23/04/1987 Tarts Hamamelis Clues are DLM; 14 unclued lights are words with a silent initial letter missing, these letters being the initial letters of appropriately numbered clues.
2897 30/04/1987 Mastermind Sabre 6-letter lights are each clued by four guesses in the game of Mastermind with the respective scores; other down lights are jumbled.
2898 07/05/1987 Mots Croisés Ragtag Italicised clues lead to words which are also words in French, with the definitions leading to the French meanings; definitions of the English meanings appear as superfluous words in other clues.
2899 14/05/1987 Pig-in-the-Middle Dimitry Lights, which may read in any of four directions, are entered using the 'pigpen' cipher; central light is SWINE, with each of the four points of the compass entered from its own direction and the central I from any. Perimeter, read from S, spells 'O WHEN
2900 21/05/1987 Six Errant Characters in Search of an Author Adam Six knights, each having TWELVE CANTOS of the FAERIE QUEENE (unclued), may be traced along knight's tours ending in asterisked squares.
2901 28/05/1987 After the Op? Ploutos 16 answers contain a boy's or girl's name, to be replaced on entry with one of the opposite sex to form a new word, e.g. TRAYFUL leads to TRUTHFUL.
2902 04/06/1987 Impartiality — II Phi Each answer 'casts its vote' by replacing a C, L or A with an X, the numbers of votes cast for each party being equal. 4 lights (not voting) are Playfair-coded. KEY: Stay in power
2903 11/06/1987 Oneupcluemanship Eel Clues to 4- and 5-letter lights contain one-word definitions of them, but otherwise lead to other words, whose letters must each be advanced one place in the alphabet to form the lights, e.g. ANTS leads to BOUT.
2904 18/06/1987 Mixed Doubles Potin Half the answers are 'double' words, e.g. TETE, HUGGER-MUGGER (one letter change) or NAAN (halves echoed); either the light is, or the subsidiary indication refers to, half of the full word. Half the remaining clues require one of the words to be repeated
2905 25/06/1987 Lobs Due? Law Across lights represent games of a mixed doubles tennis match, with the numerical value of each letter being the number of valid shots in each rally. First two and last two lights are Playfair-coded; letter-mixtures of others, with letters of players' nam KEY: Wimbledon
2906 02/07/1987 Game, Set & Match Don Wimble Grid is blank; each light represents a game in a tennis match. Letters are entered across or down according to which player wins the point concerned.
2907 09/07/1987 Service Break Trev Each unclued light is a motorway service station, less the letter in the position given by the number of the motorway e.g. KNUTS(F)ORD on the M6.
2908 16/07/1987 KLUKODE — III Klan Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z (excluding I and O) stand for the integers from 1 to 24 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them.
2909 23/07/1987 Bedwords (______) Apex Most symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell INVENTED BY THURBER. 12 lights are to be 'expanded' into words by being placed inside BEDs, e.g. BSI leads to CRAB-SIDLE.
2910 30/07/1987 Stars and Stripes Klick Unclued lights are Christian names of American film stars and presidents sharing the same surnames, e.g. JAMES and MARILYN (Monroe).
2911 06/08/1987 Figure It Out — 3 Alban 6 asterisked clues have Playfair-coded lights; perimeter reads 'THE RULE OF THREE DOTH PUZZLE ME, AND PRACTICE DRIVES ME MAD'. KEY: Eighty-four
2912 13/08/1987 Cutting out the boring bits Ricshaw Clues are LL, spelling ENNUI, PROSINESS, MONOTONY, TEDIUM, ACEDIA, LONGUEUR. Top and bottom rows spell AVE ATQUE VALE RUSSELL TWISK (marking his departure from the editorship of The Listener).
2913 20/08/1987 Pastoral Salamanca Each square is split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. The upper triangles spell RE(TO)RT COURTEOUS, REPLY CH(U)RLISH, COUNTER(CH)ECK QUARRELSOME, LIE CIRCUM(ST)ANTIAL, QUIP M(O)DEST, REP
2914 27/08/1987 Sounding Out Mascot Half the clues in each direction contain definitions of their lights; the remainder contain 'rhyme-words' (involving sound changes). The rest of each clue is a subsidiary indication to a light in the other direction. The central lights across and down are
2915 03/09/1987 Hands Off! Jago The letters of each light are transposed 12 places in the alphabet (with Q and Z excluded); first and last columns (unclued) then read END OF THE LAST DOG WATCH', which time (8 p.m.) is to be entered in the hands of the clock in the centre of the grid.
2916 10/09/1987 Three Score and Ten Zander Unclued lights are three synonyms of SCORE (LINE, GROUND, DEBT) and ten words from which TEN has been omitted to form other words, e.g. AN(TEN)NAL.
2917 17/09/1987 Hexagonal — II Bart Grid is hexagonal; lights, mostly jumbled, are entered in three directions, with each clue single, double or treble, corresponding to one line in the grid. Perimeter reads 'SHAKESPEARE NEVER HAD SIX LINES TOGETHER WITHOUT A FAULT'.
2918 24/09/1987 WRBH Hand in Glove All answers have equal numbers of vowels and consonants; only the consonants are entered, and across lights are reversed. Unclued central across light is HEBREW.
2919 01/10/1987 Numerical Piccadilly Numerical puzzle, with clues in terms of the letters of the word NUMERICAL, representing the 9 positive digits in an order to be determined. Each base from 2 to 10 is used in one row and one column. 7 lights are unclued, with clues (as products) to be giv
2920 08/10/1987 Double Entry Casein 10 clues each contain two unwanted consecutive letters; in 10 other clues two consecutive letters have been omitted; 5 clues lack definitions, provided by the 10 unclued lights in pairs.
2921 15/10/1987 Original Syns Adam 21 clues are first lines of poems, with the lights synonyms of their titles.
2922 22/10/1987 ‘_________’ (300 Years Old) Apex First two and last two across answers (ZOSTER, BODICE, CORSET, SASHES) are Playfair-coded; remaining across lights are MP, with correct letters a rearrangement of EDMUND WALLER (d. 21/10/1687). Down clues are LL, spelling (with middle row of grid) encoded KEY: On a girdle
2923 29/10/1987 The Labours of Hercules — III The Erymanthian Boar Phi 18 clues are double, leading to two words which together with the light form an anagram of ERYMANTHIAN BOAR. Main diagonal is J-EURYSTHEUS-AR (when Hercules brought the boar back to King Eurystheus, he hid in a jar).
2924 05/11/1987 No Clues Mime 18 lights are clued only by numbers, using A = 1, B = 2, etc., e.g. 57 leads to STRIPLING, 1.0642 leads to SECT, 1.1761 leads to LOGO.
2925 12/11/1987 Superstition Sabre 4 clues are 'Black Cat' (CAT is removed on entry); 4 are 'Ladder' (L is added); 4 are 'Broken Mirror' (light is jumbled palindrome). All other lights are misprinted; three unclued rows spell THIRTEENTH OF A MONTH IS MOST LIKELY FRIDAY.
2926 19/11/1987 Dismissed Mass 20 answers lose a deity initially, e.g. (THOR)NAPPLE; perimeter reads 'THERE'S A (DIVINITY) THAT SHAPES OUR ENDS, ROUGH-HEW THEM HOW WE WILL' - W.S., 'HAMLET'.
2927 26/11/1987 Opera Parts Amicus 4 unclued lights (CARRIAGE, GOLF-BALL, SPACE-BAR, KEYBOARD) are encoded by replacing each letter by that immediately following it on a typewriter (by which OPERA becomes PARTS).
2928 03/12/1987 Drawing Set Klick Unclued lights down and across can be preceded by BLACK and WHITE respectively.
2929 10/12/1987 Cellblock Miguel Grid comprises equilateral triangles with circles at centres of some hexagons; 7-letter lights are entered in and around appropriately numbered circles, which spell 'WORDS ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH', said by JOHNSON, possibly to BOSWELL (both unclued
2930 17/12/1987 Carte Colorée Eel Grid is blank with squares coloured, each colour corresponding to four letters (J and Z being ignored). Clues are given in order; 10 lights of the form _TO_ are clued only by the number of intermediate letters and by definitions occurring as superfluous w
2931 17/12/1987 Hungarian Goulash Leon Grid represents net of a Rubik cube with coloured squares; lights are 3-letter, either clued directly as words or appearing as alternate letters in answers. Unscrambled cube reads ERN+ RUBIK MADE A CUBIC AND BY CLEVER KNACKS HE'S PUT IN TRIPLE AXES.
2932 31/12/1987 Justyn Print — VIII Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'Cameo' leads to MINNIE CHEWER.
2933 07/01/1988 New Year’s Revolutions Smokey Half the clues are normal, but the light is an anagram of the answer; in the remainder one word of the definition must be replaced by an anagram. 12 pairs of unclued lights form anagrams of the months of the French revolutionary calendar.
2934 14/01/1988 Heart Transplants — III Duck and Hen The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.
2935 21/01/1988 4 Across 33 Down Calmac On entry, 13 answers lose abbreviations of the original states comprising the United States (represented by the stripes of the Anerican flag); subsidiary indications are to the forms entered.
2936 28/01/1988 Quasar Corylus 8 unclued lights (-APPLES, -BRIGHT, -RINESS, -VATION, -MONGER, -ANISES, -SHAPED and -RY-EYED) run outwards from the central STAR.
2937 04/02/1988 Bicycling Ozzie Most clues lead to cyclic permutations of the lights (all still words); in the remainder the subsidiary indications lead to cyclic permutations (not words) of the lights.
2938 11/02/1988 Jigsaw Politicaster Lights travel from given initial squares in any of four directions and may make up to 2 changes of direction.
2939 18/02/1988 Fiat Lux Swan Across lights are encoded by writing the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order, placing the alphabet above this and replacing each letter by that below it. KEY: Strangely
2940 25/02/1988 The Labours of Hercules — IV The Ceryneian Hind Phi Unclued lights represent the chase, in which Hercules (H) came ever nearer to the tail of the hind (D): MODERATORSHIP, DOWNRIGHTNESS, DEBAUCHER, ELDRITCH, SDEATH, DISH-CLOUT, DEHISCE. Subsidiary indications lead to the lights with extra letters, spelling
2941 03/03/1988 Call my bluff Virgilius Each light has three 'definitions': one is a normal definition, one is a subsidiary indication and one contains a letter-mixture.
2942 10/03/1988 Name-day Dimitry Theme is MARX (i.e., MAR 10): unclued theme-words are LEONARD, HERBERT, ADOLPH and JULIUS (original Christian names of the Marx brothers). Other unclued lights are variations on five of their films: Monkey Business (BABOONERY, APERY); Horse Feathers (MOUN
2943 17/03/1988 Fives — In Memoriam Ulixis Ploutos All clues are DLM; each across clue leads to a 5-letter word two of whose letters are changed to form the light (another word, also defined in the clue). New letters spell 'BUT TWO ARE WALKING APART FOR EVER, AND WAVE THEIR HANDS FOR A MUTE FAREWELL' - JE
2944 24/03/1988 Indeksikod Klan Numerical puzzle; the letters a, b, c, ..., z, A, ..., E (excluding i and o) stand for the integers from 1 to 29 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them.
2945 31/03/1988 Just What the Doctor Ordered Mass 7 lights in each direction contain abbreviations of the days of the week; subsidiary indications in these clues lead to the remaining letters. Other clues are MP, with correct letters spelling 'LOOK UPON EVERY DAY TO BE LOST'.
2946 07/04/1988 YTSOUFEI’L RTGUB (or THE LISTENER ———) Amicus 6 answers contain MON, TU, WED, FR, SAT and SUN, to be replaced by the appropriate names from 'The Man who was Thursday'; 4 lights are Playfair-coded. KEY: Plus mighty A. Coren
2947 14/04/1988 One Left Duck Nine answers lose a tree on entry; 4 lights (all trees) are Playfair-coded. Remaining clues are MP, with misprints spelling 'SPARE, WOODMAN, SPARE THE BEECHEN TREE'. KEY: Lumberjack
2948 21/04/1988 Missing Links XV Zander 13 unclued lights form a chain in which each link is synonymous with its predecessor.
2949 28/04/1988 Eremikon Sabre There are four blank 6 x 6 grids, with across lights jumbled. In each grid, 2 unclued down lights are desert winds, and 2 unclued across lights are desert plants (one jumbled and the other encoded by subtracting the name of a desert, e.g. MESCAL - SAHARA
2950 05/05/1988 Spring in the Air Jewel Clues are MP, spelling 'SHEPHERD'S GARLAND' BY MICHAEL DRAYTON, the source of the perimeter quotation 'THE OUSEL AND THE THROSTLECOCK, CHIEF MUSIC OF OUR MAY'.
2951 12/05/1988 Seesaw Gos Lights are entered diagonally, half of them up and half down; BISHOP'S MOVES appears in the grid.
2952 19/05/1988 A Golden Chain Law Lights are misprinted, with subsidiary indications leading to the forms to be entered. Beginning in the isolated central square and moving along each light in turn, changing direction at each misprint, spells 'AND DRAGS AT EACH REMOVE A LENGTHENING CHAIN'
2953 26/05/1988 How Many Bottles? Jago Grid is round (with parts of squares at circumference); clues are DLM. Unclued lights are items brought by the Jumblies, with initial and final letters transposed; the one missing is 'forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree', so 40 is entered in the central isolated
2954 02/06/1988 Fair Exchange Nibor 12 answers are old London telephone exchanges, and are entered encoded by adding the modern numerical equivalents of each letter, e.g. TABARD + 822822 = BCDITF.
2955 09/06/1988 Crosswords Smokey Across clues are subsidiary indications to 'crossbreeds', e.g. BAYWOLF (BAYARD, DEMIWOLF); the lights are the other hybrids, e.g. DEMIARD.
2956 16/06/1988 Clues as Lights Waterloo Across lights are in themselves clues (without definition) to other words; clues given are definitions into which these clued words have been introduced, e.g. 'Clap lots amplified' leads to HUNDREDFOLD.
2957 23/06/1988 Words _____ Finding Apex Theme is Wordsworth's poem composed on Westminster Bridge. There are various types of clue: Playfair, LL (spelling TOWERS, DOMES), MP (spelling ALPHA AND OMEGA), PD (with initial letters of clues spelling RIVER, THEATRES); perimeter and central row contai
2958 30/06/1988 Take Four or Five Adam Numerical puzzle; clues are quintuples of numbers such that the sum of any four, or of all five, is a perfect square, together with the six square roots.
2959 07/07/1988 No Offence Intended Klick Unclued lights are terms used in defensive fortifications.
2960 14/07/1988 36 Holes Phalarope Grid represents two 18-hole golf courses, where each green is adjacent to the next tee. Clues are double; for each hole number, one letter is 'sliced' from the first course and 'hooked' into the second, spelling THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT.
2961 21/07/1988 Lost in T’Woods Blod Clues are LL, spelling 'TIME TO WIN THIS GAME AND THRASH T'SPANIARDS'; 4 lights are Playfair-coded. KEY: Quoth Drake
2962 28/07/1988 The Name of the Game Duck Across clues are double or treble; lights are entered separated by letters from down lights, which form a bowls configuration of the jack and 6 woods together with the letters of FRANCIS DRAKE.
2963 04/08/1988 Two in One Alcuin Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; lights are entered in three directions. Two sets of clues are given, either of whose lights fill the grid.
2964 11/08/1988 Cricket Scoreboard Phil Brindall Grid represents a 40-over innings (20 overs in each direction); each over is a 6-letter light (or 7-letter in one case in each direction, due to a no-ball), and the runs scored off each ball are added to each letter on entry, e.g. PLENTY + 242000 = RPGNTY
2965 18/08/1988 Times Square BeRo The lights SEV, ENT, YTH and REE are unclued; the configuration FO above UR appears four times in the grid. Lights FACTORIAL, ROOT, PLUS, DIVIDE, POINTS and RECURRING (together with TIMES and SQUARE from the title) assist in finding an expression for 73 u
2966 25/08/1988 Playfer Mass 18 lights are anagrams of the answers with initial and final letters removed. Six 4-letter lights have italicised clues, and anagrams, all horses, are given in Playfair-coded form. Perimeter spells NIKOLAI DISCOVERED A WILD EQUINE SPECIES IN CENTRAL ASIA. KEY: Przewalski
2967 01/09/1988 The Labours of Hercules V Phi 10 answers lose names of birds on entry; letters of these names may be rearranged to fill a separate small grid. 20 remaining clues have superfluous words defining the lights in the small grid in order; the other 6 clues consist of definitions together wi
2968 08/09/1988 Jigsaw Alphabetical Imbricata Clues are presented in reverse alphabetical order of the lights reversed; subsidiary indications ignore the final letters, which exhaust the alphabet, with repetition only when two lights end in the same square.
2969 15/09/1988 Last Night Nibor Each answer gains an extra letter on entry, spelling ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON, JAMES THOMSON, WILLIAM BLAKE; clues contain definitions and letter-mixtures of the lights. Perimeter reads 'MOTHER OF THE FREE', 'NEVER WILL BE SLAVES', 'DARK SATANIC MILLS'.
2970 22/09/1988 Horses for Courses Mespot 8 answers contain a synonym of 'course', to be replaced by a horse on entry, e.g. APATHY leads to AJADEY.
2971 29/09/1988 Follow Suit Piccadilly Card puzzle: the pack is dealt into eight rows of 6 cards and one of 4, and clues are given in rows and columns to products of ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7). Cards are given letter equivalences, and clues are also given to nine lights. In t
2972 06/10/1988 Place Setting II Aelfre In each row and column a double clue leads to two answers, to be interwoven on entry, e.g. FUMADO, GIMBAL lead to FGUIMMABDAOL. One clue in each pair has either the definition or the light misprinted; misprinted letters in grid form the diagonal GESUNDHEI
2973 13/10/1988 Sixes and Sevens XIV Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
2974 20/10/1988 Marksmen Leon Unclued lights are doges of Venice.
2975 27/10/1988 Eclipse Smokey Half the clues are LL, spelling 'LET THEM NOT SEE THE SUN'; remaining answers lose RA on entry.
2976 03/11/1988 All Square Swan Down answers are encoded using four 5 x 5 squares beneath the grid (two of which are largely to be determined): pairs of letters are located in squares B and C, are encoded by the letters in squares A and D forming a rectangle with them.
2977 10/11/1988 Primatology Kea Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters are added to across answers or subtracted from down answers, spelling 'A MAN FOR AYE REMOVED FROM THE DEVELOP'D BRUTE'; unclued lights are AYEDRILL, AYEGABEY, SIAAYEG, HANUAYE.
2978 17/11/1988 Order a Small Number Eel Clues are given in random order; the first two letters of each form the symbol of a chemical element, whose atomic number gives the location of the light. 12 unclued lights have as unchecked letters the appropriate 1-letter symbols.
2979 24/11/1988 Perfect Square Mime Lights are transliterated into the alphabet devised by ST. THOMAS MORE (leading diagonal) for UTOPIA. Some of the equivalences are given; the rest are to be deduced, as half the lights in each direction are entered upside-down.
2980 01/12/1988 Knight’s Progress Casein Grid is inscribed in a circle; lights entirely within the central 8 x 8 square are jumbled. A knight's tour of this square spells ARTHUR, KAY, MODRED, TOR, GERAINT, PERCIVAL, GAWAIN, LANCELOT, GALAHAD: ROUND TABLE.
2981 08/12/1988 Skin Grafts Amicus Clues are DLM; the outer two letters of each light are entered elsewhere.
2982 15/12/1988 Give and Take V Bart To each across answer is added a letter or letters to the value of the grid number; from each down answer letters are similarly removed. Certain diagonals spell 'UNCOUTH WORDS IN DISARRAY'.
2983 22/12/1988 Read the Bars Corylus Grid is blank; bars to be entered form HAPPY XMAS (with some diagonal, dividing squares in two). Clues are normal, PD, LL (spelling 'OLD CHRISTMAS BROUGHT HIS SPORTS AGAIN'), MP (spelling CHRISTMAS DAY) and Playfair. Three 21-letter lights are unclued. KEY: Dec 25th
2984 22/12/1988 A Christmas Crossword Ploutos Puzzle is a Times-style jumbo; unclued lights are 'IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER', 'A CHILD THIS DAY IS BORN', MELCHIOR, CASPAR, BALTHAZAR, GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH.
2985 05/01/1989 Jack Frost & Co Mass Ten clues contain redundant expressions including letter-mixtures of theme-words (ICE, SNOW etc.), to be mixed with the answers to form the lights. Remaining clues are DLM with letter-mixtures including extra letters, spelling THE WARMEST CHRISTMAS WISHES
2986 12/01/1989 The Labours of Hercules VI The Augean Stables Phi Unclued lights are GIHON, PISHON, TIGRIS, EUPHRATES; MEUSE, STUD, MANEGE, STALL - the rivers are diverted to pass through the stables (interpolating extra letters), leaving four squares in their original paths blank.
2987 19/01/1989 Prize Prime Digitry Dimitry Numerical puzzle: clues define pairs of words differing in one letter; each letter represents a different number less than 60, and the light is the prime obtained as the sum of the squares of the differing letters, e.g. PRIZE PRIME leads to Z¦ + M¦.
2988 26/01/1989 Nomos Essem Across clues are MP, spelling 'MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS'; down clues are PD. Remaining lights are words less JAN, FEB etc., defined in random order.
2989 02/02/1989 Little Difference Sabre Each letter is assigned a digit; 11 lights are clued numerically in terms of Diophantine equations in which a cube or fifth power is close to a square.
2990 09/02/1989 Diff Aelfre The preamble states 'letters of ANSWERS should always be CHANGED before entry', i.e., A is entered as C, N as H etc.
2991 16/02/1989 Inside Out IV Duck Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear.
2992 23/02/1989 Siamese Twins Poat Grid comprises two 17 x 5 rectangles joined in the middle, where SEEING DOUBLE is unclued. 4 down lights are pairs of words of the same length overlapping one letter, either mutual synonyms or mutual anagrams. 8 normal clues and 8 DLM clues have answers l
2993 02/03/1989 Just Do As You’re Told III Klick Each across clue contains a superfluous word, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'It has spoilt the hot joint' leads to HET, LOIN (= joint), giving HELOT.
2994 09/03/1989 Two Bedroom Bungalow Centigram Grid is the floor plan of a house with six 6 x 6 rooms; each contains an unclued light identifying which room it is (e.g. LOOFAH), enabling an isolated square to be correctly filled. 'Passageway' clues are normal; within each room clues are in random orde
2995 16/03/1989 Helix Piccadilly Grid is blank; clues are in largely random order, leading to words forming an overlapping spiral. Diagonals spell TO SOLVER: DIAGONALS ARE USEFUL.
2996 23/03/1989 Wintry Weather Alcuin Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; lights are entered in three directions. Clues are MP, spelling EVERYMAN'S DICTIONARY OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, wherein can be found the 13 unclued lights (characters from SNOW's 'Strangers and Brothers'
2997 30/03/1989 Skelekode II Klan Numerical puzzle; grid is blank to be completed with black squares. The letters a, b, c, ..., z (excluding i and o) stand for the integers from 2 to 25 in an order to be determined, and clues and light-lengths are in terms of them.
2998 06/04/1989 6 Down Machiavelli Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented centrally by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light.
2999 13/04/1989 UHLAKHPT Keslit Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues either define both words, or define one and indicate the other subsidiarily. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using a different codeword for each quart KEY: Aldwych, Cambridge, Phoenix, Wyndham's
3000 20/04/1989 Mmm … The Listener’s Capital Entertainment Ploutos, Salamanca, Sabre, Duck, Phi, Dimitry Grid is an L shape comprising five 12 x 12 grids: DANGERUX (definitions or lights gain or lose a B (3000 in mediaeval Roman numerals)); Froghop (down lights are misprinted with the correct letters, spelling LISTENER THREE THOUSAND, appearing a knight's mo
3001 27/04/1989 Snakes and Ladders X Zander Across lights are entered in two parts, the first in the indicated position and the second elsewhere.
3002 04/05/1989 ‘&- - - - - - - -  - - - - - - -S’ Apex Unclued lights are JOHNNY BURKE ('PENNIES FROM HEAVEN'), MITCHELL PARISH ('STAR DUST'), OTTO HARBACH ('SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES'), LEO ROBIN ('THANKS FOR THE MEMORY') - all AMERICAN LYRICISTs featured in 'THE POETRY OF POPULAR SONG' BROADCAST ON RADIO FOUR
3003 11/05/1989 Posers Plus Ingrid Unclued lights are composers.
3004 18/05/1989 Courting Couples Llig Four lights clued by one-word definitions are ROYALTY, FORTITUDE, PIETY, WISDOM - the qualities represented by the queens in a French pack of cards. The names of the kings and queens form the perimeter; clues are thematic.
3005 25/05/1989 L’Etranger Kea In each answer one letter moves to the outside on entry; 8 unclued lights are terms given to people in foreign situations.
3006 01/06/1989 For U Hand in Glove Each answer is entered in one of four ways depending on the quarter of the grid containing its initial letter: normally, in reverse, with letters in alphabetical order or with letters in reverse alphabetical order.
3007 08/06/1989 What the Butlers See Mass Grid is elliptical with 6-letter radial lights; one third are anagrams of answers less P or D. Two circuits contain four quartets of variations on theme-words: BALL, BUNDLE, SKEIN, TANGLE (clue); COUNTER, BACKCHAT, ECHO, RETORT (answer); CANDLE, TORCH, LA
3008 15/06/1989 M.D.’s 2nd XI Novamor 11 clues lead to surnames of writers, the lights being their second Christian names, entered in locations to be determined.
3009 22/06/1989 A Three-Pipe Problem Law Grid represents the floor of a room, with lights entered along three pipes roaming from centre of top row to centre of bottom row, traversing each square twice. The alphabet is divided into three groups, each corresponding to one of three configurations o
3010 29/06/1989 Sonnets from the Poet: You Guess Calmac Two sonnets are given, each containing definitions of the lights in one direction (in order) and letter-mixtures of those in the other direction (in random order).
3011 06/07/1989 Topped and Tailed V Klick Each answer loses or gains an initial or final letter on entry.
3012 13/07/1989 Rock Ride Mr. Lemon Theme is RODERICK RANDOM: 6-letter lights are jumbled, and six unclued lights are characters. Unchecked letters of jumbled lights may be rearranged as SMOLLETT; first and last letters of grid are TG (his initials).
3013 20/07/1989 Hands Off! II Jago The letters of two unbarred columns, when transposed 12 places in the alphabet (excluding Q and Z), spell 'AND IS THERE HONEY STILL FOR TEA?' 2:50 is to be entered in the hands of the church clock in the middle of the grid.
3014 27/07/1989 Count Down Leon Card puzzle: the pack is dealt in a spiral, face upwards; letters are assigned to ranks and DLM clues are given to anagrams of spiral and radial lights, while suits are clued numerically (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3, S = 4). The sequence AC, ..., KC, AD, ..., KD,
3015 03/08/1989 Litotes Goujeers Title suggests T.S. ELIOT: clues at 1 across and 1 down define WATER, FIREWATER, ROSEWATER and BUG, FIREBUG, WATERBUG respectively; initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell 'AND THE FIRE AND THE ROSE ARE ONE' (the last line of 'Four Quartets'),
3016 10/08/1989 Bylines _____ & _________ Setters appear jumbled in shaded areas; each clued half the rows and half the columns, each of which contains two words. One word in each column gains or loses a letter on entry, spelling jumbles of WEAPON and BATTLE respectively, which describe the unclu
3017 17/08/1989 All-round Curtains Ploutos Each row and column contains three 4-letter lights, written cyclically; each clue contains a normal clue to a 7-letter word whose alternate letters form one light, a superfluous word defining a second light, and an 8-letter word which is a misprinted anag
3018 24/08/1989 The Seeing Eye Duck Grid is circular; radial lights, all 8-letter bar one, are jumbled. Certain circles spell C. WREN, SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, THE WHISPERING GALLERY and 'SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS...' - CIRCUMSPICE is to be written below the grid.
3019 31/08/1989 Rubilee Zander Clues are LL, spelling 'DISENVOWELLED' BY ZANDER, FIRST SEPTEMBER NINETEEN FORTY-NINE.
3020 07/09/1989 501 (8x) BeRo Unchecked letters in the five unclued lights spell NASIK; if grid is divided into nine 4 x 4 squares and the totals of the numerical values of the letters in each are taken, they form a 3 x 3 magic square with magic constant 501.
3021 14/09/1989 Pieces of Eight II Smokey The eighteen 8-letter lights can be split into two 4-letter words, e.g. SAMP-HIRE; the first is entered in the position indicated, the second elsewhere.
3022 21/09/1989 Red Herrings Amicus Subsidiary indications lead to lights with extra letters ('red herrings') added; these can be arranged to form the five encoded unclued lights, whose uncoded forms are GRAHAM, GOWAN, STRACHAN, FARREN, WATERS (the innocent parties in 'Five Red Herrings' by KEY: Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey
3023 28/09/1989 Birdwatch Salamanca Answers are altered on entry by birds, either hidden or jumbled in clues, e.g. HAZELS, MISSEL lead to HAZS. Unclued lights are birds lacking AND, e.g. S(AND)PIPER.
3024 05/10/1989 Labours of Hercules VII Cretan Bull Phi Grid is blank. Preamble reads 'Clues are normal. They are presented in random order. Solvers should not enter bars.' - all of which are 'lies', as are the clues in various ways.
3025 12/10/1989 Altared States Poat Grid is altar-shaped; SUOVETAURILIA is unclued. Nine answers lose animals appropriately: S(HOG)UN, DI(SOW)N, E(PIG)ONS; COR(TEG)E, REN(EWE)D, S(TUP)ENT; S(COW)LING, T(OX)ICAL, CU(NEAT)E.
3026 19/10/1989 Whirligig Sabre In each set of four symmetrically positioned lights, two are entered normally, one is jumbled and one encoded by a simple substitution cipher (clues to the latter two being italicised).
3027 26/10/1989 ABC Alcuin Grid is hexagonal, comprising equilateral triangles; lights are entered in three directions. 26 unclued lights are film titles whose initial letters are all different.
3028 02/11/1989 Jumping Crackers Mass Half the clues lead to anagrams of the lights; definitions occur as superfluous words in other clues. Unclued lights are variously suggested by parts of 'PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT'.
3029 09/11/1989 A Frame-Up Kea Grid only has horizontal bars; 5 lights in each direction have a letter misplaced. Unclued rows read VIDE MULLION AND MONIAL IN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY; when these (vertical bars) are entered, the bars read MULLEN and MUNELL (variations in the O.E.D
3030 16/11/1989 Six Residential Characters in Search of an Author Adam Unclued lights are characters and their homes in 'Pride and Prejudice'.
3031 23/11/1989 Alternative Accommodation Law 14 clues lead to words one letter shorter than the number of squares available; the extra square is to be filled with two alternatives, each extending the word to a longer one, e.g. T I T H/L E. Superfluous words in remaining clues define the longer words
3032 30/11/1989 Pie and Chips Dimitry Across answers are entered with letters in alphabetical order (as CHIPS), down answers with letters in reverse alphabetical order (as PIE).
3033 07/12/1989 Möbius Strip Alban Most lights are 8-letter, entered along 'M÷bius paths' (two crossing diagonals of four squares each, with the bottom square of each to be followed by the top square of the other); unclued lights are HORSEMAN, REPTILES, CONVEX AND CONCAVE, M.C. ESCHER.
3034 14/12/1989 Fat Gang Dado Four lights are Playfair-coded; perimeter reads 'THE BEST LAID SCHEMES O' MICE AND MEN GANG AFT AGLEY' - R. BURNS. KEY: Forecast
3035 21/12/1989 Carol __________ Goujeers 10 clues have misprinted definitions; the misprints spell -US LINNAEUS, as do the correct letters in jumbled fashion. 6 lights clued without definitions are HEDERA HELIX, ILEX AQUIFOLIUM, VISCUM ALBUM.
3036 21/12/1989 Smokey’s Christmas Party III Smokey There are 4 types of clue: Fairy Whispers (both clues and lights are misprinted), Pin the Tail on the Donkey (creatures with last letters misplaced), Hunt the Thimble (LL, spelling FINGERSTALL) and Crackers (lights are anagrams of answers).
3037 04/01/1990 Diceword Phobis 24 letters are used, each appearing on one face of one of four dice; the faces are numbered, and in order from 1 to 6 the four dice bear the words FJORDS, PLUMBY, THWACK and VEXING. Fourteen lights are clued by dice throws, e.g. (1,2,4,3) leads to FLAX (a
3038 11/01/1990 Forwards Zander Theme-words QUICK (PIERCING, SOON, ADROIT); MARCH (PROGRESS, BORDER, STEP); LEFT (PORT, RESIGNED, SINISTER); RIGHT (REDRESS, MEET, DIRECT).
3039 18/01/1990 Primes II Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these. Each base from 2 to 12 is used for one row and one column.
3040 25/01/1990 3 Ply Mespot In 6 of the rows lights are entered according to 'knitting patterns', e.g. (K1, S1, K1, p.s.s.o., Dr1, K2) means that BRANKS becomes BARKS.
3041 01/02/1990 What’s Subtle About It? or Look At This Peeper 12 clues are in fact subtitles of literary works with extraneous words added, the lights being the titles.
3042 08/02/1990 Double Helix Adam Grid is blank; each row or column is presumed to run on to the next, and lights are clued in order, always with one or two unchecked letters between successive lights.
3043 15/02/1990 One-Time Pad Swan Down lights are normal; across answers are encoded on entry by regarding A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28 etc. and adding 'AND THUS THE NATIVE HUE OF RESOLUTION IS SICKLIED O'ER WITH THE PALE CAST OF THOUGHT; AND ENTERPRISES OF GREAT PITH AND MOMENT, WITH THIS RE
3044 22/02/1990 The Labours of Hercules VIII The Horses of Diomedes Phi Eight clues lead to words which, with the addition of a letter from DIOMEDES, may be rearranged to form a horse, which is to be entered along knight's moves, passing through an isolated square.
3045 01/03/1990 Three by Three Sabre There are two 9 x 9 grids; across answers are entered in one, down in the other. One is formed from the other by rearranging the nine 3 x 3 blocks into which it may be divided; three rows of the 'down' grid read TERN, TRINE; TREY, PRIAL; TRIO, LEASH.
3046 08/03/1990 Misdefined II Dogop All clues are MP (original puzzle was no. 2046).
3047 15/03/1990 Y Calmac Title is really IVRY; each answer loses a different IVR synbol on entry, while initial letters of clues spell 'NOW GLORY TO THE LORD OF HOSTS, FROM WHOM ALL GLORIES ARE' (the first line of the poem).
3048 22/03/1990 Stormy Fellows Klick Unclued lights across are LADON, AELLO, DROMAS, CANACE, STICTE (dogs belonging to Actaeon as related by OVID); those down are GROWLTIGER, GUS, MORGAN, MACAVITY (from 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats').
3049 29/03/1990 Solitaire III Leon Card puzzle; the pack is dealt in a solitaire shape. Clues are given to products along diagonals of ranks and suits (C = 2, D = 3, H = 5, S = 7). The solitaire is played with superior cards jumping inferior ones (order being KS, ..., AS, KH, ..., AH, KD,
3050 05/04/1990 Diamonds Blod Grid is diamond-shaped, comprising hexagons; shaded ones are to contain numbers forming a 6 x 6 magic square, and lights are entered around them, 4 being Playfair-coded. Perimeter reads 'IT TAKES A GREAT MAN TO MAKE A GOOD LISTENER' - ARTHUR HELPS. (Puzzl KEY: Birthday gems
3051 12/04/1990 Playing Truant Apex Clues are double, leading to pairs of symmetrically placed lights. 8 unclued 4-letter lights are anagrams of fish; 8 perimeter answers, clued only by definition, lose the fish on entry.
3052 19/04/1990 Head-Hunting XV Zander The first letter of each answer is entered misplaced; certain diagonals spell 'WHEN OUR HEADS ARE BOWED WITH WOE'.
3053 26/04/1990 Cluedo Law Grid is a Cluedo board, with 9 shaded rooms; A-F represent the suspects, G-L the murder weapons and M-U the rooms. A game is played between two players: each room contains a 3-letter unclued 'suggestion' made by one player, who upon seeing the nine cards
3054 03/05/1990 Roll a Penny Smokey Each answer contains one letter P, entered misplaced.
3055 10/05/1990 EP Salamanca Grid is a record with lights entered radially and in a spiral along a groove. 6 Elvis Presley songs (in the groove) affect radial answers: HARD-HEADED WOMAN (answers gain H initially to become girls' names), ALL SHOOK UP (light is an anagram of the answer
3056 17/05/1990 At a Loose End Kea Grid is made up of squares and trapezia. Most across lights are jumbled; strings of lights (with DLM clues in passages) weave up and down, being reflected at bars. Trapezia spell 'COME, THOU MORTAL WRETCH, WITH THY SHARP TEETH THIS (KNOT) INTRINSICATE OF
3057 24/05/1990 Springtime Sabre Alternate squares are split into two triangles; letters clued once belong to the upper triangles, those clued twice to the lower. Upper triangles spell 'SUMER IS ICUMEN IN, LHUDE SING CUCCU! GROWETH SED, AND BLOWETH MED, AND SPRINGTH THE WUDE NU'.
3058 31/05/1990 The Lost Chord Llig All lights are entered from the perimeter inwards; unclued lights are (some of) the Gates of Jerusalem.
3059 07/06/1990 ____________________ Amicus Half the clues are LL, spelling GRESHAM'S LAW RULES, OK? - this applies to the remaining, in which coins are replaced by anagrams, e.g. FRANCHISE becomes NRACFHISE.
3060 14/06/1990 At the Bar Ploutos Many lights are in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.
3061 21/06/1990 Constitutional Goujeers Across lights, entered normally, have LL clues spelling 'MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS'; unclued down lights are SUCHPREISENT and JOYS.
3062 28/06/1990 R and L Dimitry Grid is blank and has Cartesian co-ordinates; lights (all 5-letter) are entered letter by letter in squares whose co-ordinates are successive pairs in a Fibonacci-like sequence, e.g. (0,1), (1,1), (1,2), (2,3), (3,5), ... (working modulo 10). REN+ DESCART
3063 05/07/1990 Six Distraught Characters in Search of an Author Adam 12 unclued lights are anagrams of first and last names of 6 Shavian characters.
3064 12/07/1990 Play Printer’s Defilry Apex Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues are definition and PD for the two words. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using a different codeword for each quarter of the grid, together with a mess KEY: Herbalist, Housling, Bluecoat, Racks
3065 19/07/1990 Gridcode Phi Grid is a 12 x 12 square with the central 8 x 8 square shaded and given co-ordinates by keywords (DARI, NOTE, ENSLAVER); lights not entering the shaded square have one or two pairs of consecutive letters encoded, e.g. DE encodes as H because the square in
3066 26/07/1990 Blandy and Benedictine Mr Lemon Down lights are jumbles of ruined abbeys; clues are subsidiary indications to unjumbled forms with indications of letter pairs, with the first of each pair contributing to LORD THOMAS CROMWELL and the second being the unchecked letter of the light.
3067 02/08/1990 Clip On Tee Peg IV Zander All lights are misprinted once, but are still words.
3068 09/08/1990 Heart Transplants IV Duck and Hen The 'heart' of each answer (a word at the exact centre) is transplanted elsewhere on entry; each clue contains a definition and subsidiary indication of the answer and a one-word definition of the new heart.
3069 16/08/1990 Prompt Helpful Clue Corylus Puzzle concerns JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (initial letters of normal clues); title suggests 'LEAD KINDLY LIGHT' (given by MP clues). 7 answers omit one letter each on entry, spelling ST. MARY'S; various lights are thematic.
3070 23/08/1990 Cheers! Bufo Answers omit one letter each on entry, spelling 'NAMES THAT SHOULD BE ON EVERY INFANT'S TONGUE'; the previous line of the poem contains the unclued lights HODGSON, GUINNESS, ALLSOPP, BASS.
3071 30/08/1990 Selection Box Smokey 22 asterisked clues are LL , spelling '... AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY'; 4 unclued lights are definitions of CHARLIE, while the other unclued lights are the other four children in the story: MIKE TEAVEE, AUGUSTUS GLOOP, VIOLET BEAUREGARDE, VERUCA SALT.
3072 06/09/1990 …Nes Miguel Clues (in non-canonical order) are LL, spelling 'I NE SAUGH THIS YEER SO MERY A COMPANYE AT O(nes)'; unclued lights are, and have letters latent spelling, CANTERBURY PILGRIMS.
3073 13/09/1990 Pot and Kettle Piccadilly Across lights are misprinted; down lights are jumbled (and 11 lose one letter to form another word - these may be arranged to spell ARTEMUS WARD). A central block, read boustrophedon, contains 'IT IS A PITY THAT CHAWCER, WHO HAD GENEYUS, WAS SO UNEDICATED
3074 20/09/1990 Some Flowers Transplanted Casein 21 answers contain rivers, each to be replaced by one of the others on entry.
3075 27/09/1990 Magic Semi-Circles Bedecked Leon Card puzzle; grid is circular, with the pack (less 7H and 7S) arranged in 5 concentric circles, such that the upper and lower semicircles are magic. Letters are assigned to ranks and DLM clues are given to anagrams of radial and circumferential lights; su
3076 04/10/1990 Give or Take (5 years?) Apex Each across answer loses two consecutive letters on entry, spelling 'MARRY ME AND I'LL NEVER LOOK AT ANOTHER HORSE'; down answers gain superfluous letters, spelling GROUCHO MARX CENTENARY. Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by super
3077 11/10/1990 The Exed Middle Law 17 answers have their middles excluded (the central four letters, which are arithmetic progressions when A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28, etc.); in the other clues one word has lost its central letter, spelling PLACE OF TRADE THAT SEES MOTHER RIGHT, a clue to MA
3078 18/10/1990 In the Country Pabulum 'In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king' - so 6 answers have R or K replaced by a definition of MAN containing one I, and all other answers lose all occurrences of I on entry.
3079 25/10/1990 The Listener Crossword IV Klick 12 lights are homonyms of the answers; 5 answers are replaced by two-word homophones, one entered where indicated and the other elsewhere.
3080 01/11/1990 Abhorrent Discomfort Kea Asterisked clues are MP, spelling TEETH ON EDGE. 10 clues comprise definitions of two words and a subsidiary indication of the light, formed by writing the tooth sandwiched between the two words perpendicular to the remaining parts, e.g. SUCRE NANA is ent
3081 08/11/1990 Guardsmen Llig Perimeter contains AGAMEMNON, GORGON; CADMUS, DRAGON; HECTOR, LION; MENELAUS, SERPENT - in each case the creature appears on the SHIELD of the hero, and consequently the central 2 x 2 square should contain a drawing of a shield.
3082 15/11/1990 Chir Brun Mr Lemon Puzzle concerns RICHMAL CROMPTON (real name LAMBURN, born 15/11/1890) and her WILLIAM books; unclued lights are WILLIAM, GINGER, HENRY, DOUGLAS (the OUTLAWS - hence no L, A, W or S appears in the grid). Half the clues contain superfluous book titles with
3083 22/11/1990 Word Ladder Sol All lights except eight are unclued rungs of a 6-letter word-ladder.
3084 29/11/1990 Hare and Hounds Swan Each answer except the last loses one letter on entry, also missing from the next clue. 4 central 6-letter across lights are formed by adding AFGHAN, SALUKI, BEAGLE, BASSET to the answers (using A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28 etc.).
3085 06/12/1990 A One-Act Tragedy Amicus 10 unclued lights are hounds of Actaeon; the others appear, as anagrams with extra letters, as superfluous words in clues, the extra letters spelling 'HUNTSMAN, REST! THY CHASE IS DONE'.
3086 13/12/1990 Wat’s on at St Andrews Nick Louse Grid is blank; each row or column represents three holes of golf. The answer for each hole is modified according to how the hole was actually played, with letters repeated or omitted for extra or unnecessary approach shots and putts.
3087 20/12/1990 The Labours of Hercules IX The Girdle of Hippolyta Phi 21 clues are normal; the other 23 are given in non-standard order, and for each the two letters forming a 'girdle' surrounding a third are omitted on entry. Omitted letters form 'NEVER DID I HEAR ... SO MUSICAL A DISCORD, SUCH SWEET THUNDER'; 'girdled' le
3088 20/12/1990 At Home with Smokey for Christmas Smokey There are 4 types of clue: Drop In (IN is omitted on entry); Cocktails (halves of two drinks are mixed, e.g. MEAD + GIMLET becomes MELET + GIMAD; one is indicated subsidiarily, the other is entered); Nuts and Crackers (definitions or lights are anagrammat
3089 03/01/1991 Squarkode Klan Numerical puzzle; the letters a, b, c, ..., z stand for the squares from 4 to 729 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them.
3090 23/03/1991 Take it From Here Ricshaw Subsidiary indications in clues omit letters, spelling 'AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE I WAS SO RUDELY INTERRUPTED'.
3091 30/03/1991 A Shatterday Puzzle Ascot Across clues are LL, spelling ULYSSES - JAMES JOYCE; 13 down clues have misprinted definitions, with misprints spelling 'FINNEGAN'S WAKE'.
3092 06/04/1991 Schedule 5 149 32 squares each contain two letters; these spell ADDER, COMMON FROG, PALMATE NEWT, SMOOTH NEWT, SLOW-WORM, GRASS-SNAKE, COMMON TOAD, all protected species of wildlife. The missing member, VIVIPAROUS LIZARD, is to be written beneath the grid.
3093 13/04/1991 Eccentric Centigram Each answer has an odd number of letters, and its central letter is entered misplaced; these spell 'GIVE CROWNS AND POUNDS AND GUINEAS BUT NOT YOUR HEART AWAY'.
3094 20/04/1991 Top Row Corylus Grid is blank, with no two lights sharing an initial square. Clues are given in numerical order (rather than listing those across first); top row contains PUT THE BARS IN (unclued).
3095 27/04/1991 Hexajig Kea There are two grids comprising equilateral triangles, each formed from the 12 hexominoes, which may be rearranged from one grid to form the other. Clues are given to words running in any of six directions in the grids, and to words formed from the letters
3096 04/05/1991 Merry Mazes Sabre Theme is 'The Rolling English Road' by G.K. CHESTERTON (centre of main diagonal). The four journeys mentioned in the last lines of verses appear appropriately in the grid: BIRMINGHAM, BANNOCKBURN, GLASTONBURY, PARADISE are unclued lights, and leading to t
3097 11/05/1991 Missing Link Apex Some clues are PD, the remainder MP, spelling PROKOFIEV - FAIRY TALE. Unclued lights (including perimeter) are BIRD - FLUTE; DUCK - OBOE; CAT - CLARINET; GRANDFATHER - BASSOON; RIFLE SHOTS - TIMPANI; WOLF - THREE HORNS; ??? - STRING QUARTET (PETER is to b
3098 18/05/1991 DNB Aelfre The preamble states 'Characters appearing in SOLUTIONS should always be TRUNCATED', i.e., S is entered as T or D, O as R or T etc. In one square A is entered as I (instead of vice versa) enabling main diagonal to spell ENCIPHERMENT.
3099 25/05/1991 → 1150 (x 10) BeRo 7-letter lights are the Old English words given in Chambers' as the etymology of the answers; remaining down clues have extra letters in definitions, spelling O.E. ETYMOLOGICAL.
3100 01/06/1991 What For? Bufo Across lights, clued by either definitions or subsidiary indications, are 'ORSES, MUTTON, MILES etc.; initial letters of the clues are the appropriate letters. Only alternate letters of down answers are entered.
3101 08/06/1991 Snark Fenrix Clues across and down are paired in the normal order, with one of each pair containing an extraneous letter omitted from the other, spelling 'AN AGONY IN EIGHT FITS'.
3102 15/06/1991 Playfair Pairs Adam Unclued lights are formed from BARCHESTER TOWERS, DOCTOR THORNE, PRECIOUS BANE, RODERICK RANDOM, ROBINSON CRUSOE, REGINALD CRUDEN: one of each pair is entered in anagram form, and also acts as Playfair codeword for the other. KEY: Towers, Thorne, Bane, Random, Crusoe, Reginald
3103 22/06/1991 Audiolingual (In memoriam The Listener) Mass In half the clues the definition has been replaced by a homophone; in the remainder the subsidiary indication omits the indication of a homophone.
3104 29/06/1991 Straight and Narrow Swan Across answers all have an even number of letters, which are taken in pairs; pairs are entered alternately normally and as single letters obtained by adding the two letters together (using A = 1 or 27, B = 2 or 28 etc.), e.g. KILFUD-YOKING becomes KIRUDNK
3105 06/07/1991 Theme 1 Theme 2 — A Celebration with Variations Zag Puzzle celebrating AZED 1000: variations ADZE, DAZE; ANTE, ACE/ACRE/ARE (central square containing C/R); ZAMBIA, ZENITH; GRAND, CHI; MASCULINE, NOON; KELVIN, KAMPUCHEA. There are 4 types of clue: Anagrams and assorted letters (containing anagram of one-wo
3106 13/07/1991 The Golbyd’s Toes Mr Lemon Theme is 'The Ingoldsby Legends' (given in cryptic form in title) by Barham (eight answers lose HAM on entry); six answers and the corresponding lights form titles of stories in the collection: The BLACK MOUSQUETAIRE, The BROTHERS of BIRCHINGTON, GREY DOL
3107 20/07/1991 Mixed Grill Hen 10-letter lights are clued by anagrams of themselves added to a pudding, e.g. 'A zo curry (hot, mind)' leads to MYCORRHIZA (+ DONUT); a one-word definition of each such light has been added to one of the across clues.
3108 27/07/1991 Hands Off! — III Jago Grid contains hidden 'HOW THE WORLD WAGS' - quotation begins 'It is ten o'clock', so this time is entered in the hands of an attached watch.
3109 03/08/1991 Primes — III (Playfair) Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these. Each base from 2 to 12 is used for one row and one column. 4-digit lights are Playfair-coded (with 4 x 4 codesquare containing the 10 digi KEY: 45 rpm
3110 10/08/1991 The Labours of Hercules X — The Oxen of Geryon Phi Geryon had 3 heads and 3 bodies; eight clues lead to triples of 4-letter words, from which one head (the initial letter) and one body (the remainder) are selected to form the light (a word) - the heads spell HERCULES. 3 unclued lights are NEAT, ANGUS, SIM
3111 17/08/1991 Inside Out V Duck Each answer is turned 'inside out' on entry: the 'inside' is an even number of letters at the centre of the word, of which the first half is placed at the front and the second half at the rear.
3112 24/08/1991 Sartorial Hand in Glove Clues are MP, spelling THE BELLS FROM 'THE NINE TAILORS' BY DOROTHY L. SAYERS, which are the unclued lights; each answer loses the letter which is the note of the corresponding bell.
3113 31/08/1991 Enigma Variations — II Nibor 12 clues lack definition; the answers (POSER, QUANDARY, PUZZLE, RIDDLE, TEASER, QUESTION, PROBLEM, DILEMMA, CONUNDRUM, MYSTERY, SECRET, REBUS) are entered encoded by placing the part of the alphabet used (ABCDEILMNOPQRSTUYZ) above the title and replacing KEY: Enigma Variations II
3114 07/09/1991 Floyd on China Meursault Unclued lights are names of pop groups which appear to be misspelt (BEATLES, DEF LEPPARD, IN XS, MONKEES, BYRDS, SALT N PEPA). Half the clues have subsidiary indications giving the lights with extra letters, spelling 'WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION'.
3115 14/09/1991 Sixes and Sevens — XV Zander Clues to 6- and 7-letter lights are given in random order in two groups.
3116 21/09/1991 King’s Children Waldteufel Clues are musically thematic; twelve contain a letter-mixture of a composer and the name of a misattributed musical composition, whose actual composer is the light. Half of these lights are Playfair-coded, the codephrase being a reciprocal misattribution KEY: Waltz by Humperdinck
3117 28/09/1991 Ways of Escape Buff Unclued lights are STOKE, DESBOROUGH, BURNHAM (the Chilton Hundreds) and NORTHSTEAD, appointment to which are the traditional means by which MPs resign; 6 answers contain MP, replaced by C, TON or N on entry to form other words. Subsidiary indications in
3118 05/10/1991 Double Crossword Klick 29 answers containing a repeated letter have both occurrences replaced by a different repeated letter to form other words.
3119 12/10/1991 Associations Lato 13 lights, mainly clued solely by misprinted one-word definitions, are associated with pairs of letters which exhaust the alphabet: (A.N.) OTHER, ARSENAL (F.C.), (G.K.) CHESTERTON, (HP) SAUCE, (J.Y.) PROG, WIZARD (of OZ), (Q.E.) TWO, THE IRISH (R.M.), (ST
3120 19/10/1991 Across the Downs Law Twenty 3-letter groups in which the first and third letters are the same and their numerical value, x, differs from that of the second, y, by at most 2 are represented by symbols for hills, hillocks, areas of level ground, dips and valleys according a
3121 26/10/1991 Visible Means of Support Llig One answer in each row or column loses a letter each time it occurs, spelling GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA; other lights are anagrams of the answers.
3122 02/11/1991 Seconds Out Machiavelli Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented in second position by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light.
3123 09/11/1991 Clots Petti Each square contains one, two or three letters.
3124 16/11/1991 Paintbox Phobis Grid is a jumbled Rubik's cube; lights are entered across, down or diagonally, and information is given on the number of different colours (clued) on their squares. When unjumbled the cube reads 'WITH WHAT ARE YOUR COLOURS MIXED, OPIE?' 'SIR, I MIX THEM W
3125 23/11/1991 The Morning Post Ploutos Letters are assigned to three groups: Out, In and Pending. In each answer, Out letters are omitted, while In letters are moved ahead of Pending letters, with order within these two groups being unchanged.
3126 30/11/1991 Russian Revolution, or … Degrees of Freedom Dimitry 18 answers are either rotated bodily about a horizontal or vertical axis, or translated into Russian.
3127 07/12/1991 Decacycles Sabre Each row (unbarred) contains a 10-letter word and two other letters, entered cyclically; each column contains a 5- and a 7-letter light, the latter being jumbled.
3128 14/12/1991 Bocx and Ox Fenrix Clues across and down are paired in the normal order, with one of each pair containing an extraneous letter omitted from the other, spelling MISDIRECTED LETTERS.
3129 21/12/1991 Treasure Hunt Duck Each row or column has a letter-pair associated with it, giving co-ordinates. 14 squares are to be left blank when entering lights; taking co-ordinate pairs of 13 of them gives GO TO THE CITY THAT ABRAHAM LEFT; the 14th (with co-ordinate pair UR) therefor
3130 28/12/1991 Treasure Hunt Hell°re Grid is blank and represents a map; clues are MP, spelling ORDNANCE SURVEY LANDRANGER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT. Unclued lights across are RAILWAY LINE, CANVEY, THAMES (correctly located); 5 clues lacking definitions lead to RAYLEIGH, ROCHFORN, SOUTHE
3131 04/01/1992 Spanish fly Ricshaw Each answer contains an E, to be replaced by another letter (sometimes also an E), spelling 'THE PENINSULAR PLATEAU OF SPAIN FORMING A HEAD'. 8 lights are modified by MADRID (MAD-APPLE becomes APPLE, MISMADE becomes MISE, REMADE becomes REE), LEON (MURES
3132 11/01/1992 Away Corylus EDINBURGH, DOVER, PORTSMOUTH, BRISTOL, HOLYHEAD and CARLISLE are traced in numbered squares (including four which are isolated) following the approximate paths of the appropriate A roads.
3133 18/01/1992 Appropriate Lesson (4,7) Kea 24 clues are MP, spelling unchecked letters in perimeter quotation 'CHIEFLY THE MOULD OF A MAN'S FORTUNE IS IN HIS OWN HANDS'; others have Playfair-coded lights. Solution to title is PALM READING, to be written beneath the grid. KEY: Dermatoglyphics
3134 25/01/1992 Seeds Mr. Lemon Grid is blank; unclued lights PERPENDICULAR, FACTORIAL, EQUALS, UNIVERSAL SET, THERE EXISTS, GAMMADION are to be highlighted as bar patterns. (Title is 'see D.S.')
3135 01/02/1992 Called To The Bar Salamanca There are 4 types of clue: Doubles (light is an anagram of the answer doubled, e.g. GRAIN leads to ARRAIGNING); Cocktails (light has a drink inserted); Shorts (LL, spelling MOONSHINE); Halves (light is half the answer, both halves being words).
3136 08/02/1992 Irairan Essem 25 of the across answers lose *AND on entry, with a different first letter each time, e.g. JACKA(DAND)Y, N(EAND)ERTHAL; the remaining letter (Q) is given by the title.
3137 15/02/1992 Web Hen Grid is circular, representing a spider's web; radial lights are entered jumbled. 8 squares contain flies, surrounded by their 8-letter names; central circle reads INCY WINCY - ON TOP OF THE SPOUT.
3138 22/02/1992 Playflare Apex Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues either define both words or define one and indicate the other subsidiarily. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using four different codewords, two for ac KEY: My candle, burns at, both ends, but oh my friends
3139 29/02/1992 The Labours of Hercules XI — The Golden Apples of the Hesperides Phi 9 answers are associated with British or Irish placenames, which are jumbled to form the lights; RUSSET, CRAB and COX may then be found in the grid.
3140 07/03/1992 Tied Test Phil Brindall Grid represents the scorecard from the 1960 Brisbane test; each light represents an innings, with letters advanced to show the score made, e.g. PARCHING, 24 leads to PATEISWG (0 + 0 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 10 + 9 + 0 = 24). If an X appears in the answer, the increa
3141 14/03/1992 In Memoriam Piccadilly Perimeter lights are normal; remainder are jumbled. Shaded portion of grid reads 'I SEE NO REASON WHY THE EXISTENCE OF HARRIET MARTINEAU SHOULD BE PERPETUATED'.
3142 21/03/1992 Sonnets from the poet: You guess — II Calmac Two sonnets are given, each containing definitions of the lights in one direction (in order) and letter-mixtures of those in the other direction (in random order).
3143 28/03/1992 Capital Ascot Theme-words LACE (THRASH, SPIKE); GRIFFON (PONY, NOVICE); SPROUTS (ODDS, DRUBBINGS); CARPET (SHARK, BEETLE) - all linked to BRUSSELS.
3144 04/04/1992 Pillars of State Mass Half the answers lose L or R on entry; remaining clues must have L or R restored; the choice of L or R is determined by the side of the grid in which the light is entered. Leftmost, central and rightmost columns (unclued) and LABOUR OF LOVE, THE GO-BETWEE
3145 11/04/1992 Election 92 Adam Parties are LABOUR, LIB-DEM and TORIES; all lights are formed from these letters. Certain 'seats' are gained by one party from another by substitution of letters, e.g. ETRIER (TORIES) becomes ULBOUB (LABOUR), BLURB (LABOUR) becomes BLEMB (LIB-DEM).
3146 18/04/1992 My Word BeRo 6-letter lights have DLM clues, with the letter-mixtures involving extra letters which may be rearranged to form NONE, TWO, THREE or FOUR, according to the number of letters in common between the light and a word to be determined (EASTER).
3147 25/04/1992 A Six Decker for the Admiralty? Mr Lemon Vertical edges of grid are crenellated; longer rows contain types of bread, and shorter rows fillings (all clued without definitions, in random order in the latter case). Down lights are jumbled; in their clues half have an extra letter in the definition
3148 02/05/1992 Higher Powers Leon Numerical puzzle concerning congruences of powers modulo primes.
3149 09/05/1992 End of the Line Le Gallois Down answers are entered with letters advanced in the alphabet by the length of the light.
3150 16/05/1992 Players Law Some answers are entered misprinted, with the correct letters spelling 'MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL'; remaining clues are MP, spelling 'THE TILTYARD SKILL, THE STRATEGY OF CHESS'. THOMAS A BECKET (traced by bishop's moves) starts and finishes in the centre of
3151 23/05/1992 The MENS Game 149 Unclued lights are ATOKS, ELTON, MOTOR, STOWN (i.e. A-K as S, E for L-N, M for O-R, S-W as N), giving the method of replacing letters in the central 6 x 6 square, e.g. (SEA)GULLS becomes SEASNEEN. This square contains 9 of each letter; the winner is the p
3152 30/05/1992 Avoid Extremes Llig Unclued lights are CHILO, SOLON, THALES, PERIANDER (and the others of the Seven Sages, BIAS, CLEOBULOS and PITTACOS, are to be written beneath the grid). Perimeter reads 'MOST MEN ARE BAD', 'THE GOLDEN MEAN', 'SEIZE TIME BY THE FORELOCK'.
3153 06/06/1992 α-numerix Zag Central portion of the grid contains a numerical puzzle, linked to the outer portion by FREIGHTER becoming FR8ER, NETWORK becoming NE2RK, GUANINE becoming GUA9, FOURGON becoming 4GON.
3154 13/06/1992 Nineteen to the Dozen Hen & Duck Ten 19-letter clues consist of a letter-mixture of a 12-letter light and a 7-letter word appearing in a DLM clue, e.g. 'Prophet has raved a lot' leads to SHARP-TOOTHED (+ PALAVER); all 20 of these words concern talking.
3155 20/06/1992 No Holds Barred Dimitry Grid is blank; clues are given in five groups, according to the 'ring' containing the light's initial letter, in clockwise or anti-clockwise order around each ring, starting anywhere. Correctly oriented, the bar-pattern contains 3155 read diagonally downw
3156 27/06/1992 It’s (Nearly) All Greek To Me Ploutos 12 lights are Greek words entered in capitals.
3157 04/07/1992 Tard Phi Main diagonal is TARS AND TRIPES; answers or words in clues lose an initial S. Unclued lights are LASCAR, PIRATE, BOSUN (S)AILOR and HONEYCOMB, PAUNCH, RETICULUM, RUMEN (title is (S)T-and-ARD).
3158 11/07/1992 Misprints Centigram Lights are misprinted, with correct letters spelling 'FROM WRONG TO WRONG THE EXASPERATED SPIRIT PROCEEDS' by T.S. ELIOT (unclued).
3159 18/07/1992 Eightsome Really Owzat Unclued lights in the grid are BACH, VERDI, MARTIN, DRIGO; those around the outside are OFFENBACH, MONTEVERDI, MARTINU, RODRIGO - the extra letters may be arranged as FOUR MEN OF NOTE.
3160 25/07/1992 Our 1st XI Ozzie Grid is blank; clues are given to words or letters in each row or column, but bars may be inserted differently. The numbers 1, 2, ..., 11 appear in order in the grid, barred off, e.g. LA, WEIGH, TAT, DEE, PENNINE becomes L A W|8|A|T|D E E P E N|9.
3161 01/08/1992 Taken Short Swan Clues with no light lengths given lead to answers containing words to be entered as abbreviations, e.g. GRAMARY becomes GARY, GELATINE becomes GELE.
3162 08/08/1992 Score-card Apex Each row or column has a double LL clue; the first omission is a method of dismissal (B, C, HW, LB, NO, RO or ST), while the second gives the score made. A full score-card is to be completed; the match ended in a tie.
3163 15/08/1992 Whodunnit 2: The Six Red Herrings Mime 6 PD clues lead to WOK, SPUNK, THECA, BUSK, SCUT, MERL, the encoded forms of 6 weapons AXE, KNIFE, SWORD, PIKE, KRIS, BOLT; thus PISTOL is encoded as BUTLER (the guilty party).
3164 22/08/1992 Apparition Kea Asterisked clues have Playfair-coded lights; others are MP, spelling 'IS THIS A DAGGER WHICH I SEE BEFORE ME?'; unclued lights are OBELUS, CREASE, KIRPAN, ANLACE, and the As in the grid form a dagger.
3165 29/08/1992 On the Team Salamanca There are 5 types of light entry: halfbacks (half entered in reverse), fullbacks (reversed), wingers (with centre removed, leaving a word), centre-forwards (with central letter moved to the front), and goalkeepers (entered with a synonym of GOAL included
3166 05/09/1992 Insignia Bufo Each answer loses a letter on entry, spelling 'HE WENT AT THEM BALDHEADED' (across) and 'TRUE COURAGE AND GOOD MANNERS' (down), referring to the MARQUIS OF GRANBY (top row) at the BATTLE OF WARBURG (bottom row).
3167 12/09/1992 Justyn Print — IX Zander Italicised clues are purported titles of books, with the lights being appropriate authors, e.g. 'A Ride On The Stage' leads to EUNICE + ICLE.
3168 19/09/1992 Verboliteralgebraist Mass 26 answers have a letter (different in each case) replaced by a word to form a longer word, the replacement being defined by a redundant expression in the clue; other clues are MP, with correct letters forming a rearrangement of the title.
3169 26/09/1992 Pythagorean Cubes Adam Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to x¦ + y¦ = z¦.
3170 03/10/1992 Olla Podrida II Klick Asterisked clues lead to words or phrases indicating the lights, e.g. BROKEN TERRAIN leads to TRAINER.
3171 10/10/1992 Rogues Fenrix Clues across and down are paired in the normal order, with one of each pair containing an extraneous letter omitted from the other, spelling 'THE PURLOINED LETTER'.
3172 17/10/1992 Funny Sabre There are four blank 6 x 6 grids, with half the clues DLM and answers to down clues jumbled. In each grid, 2 unclued down lights and 2 unclued across lights are water-craft.
3173 24/10/1992 Literals Machiavelli Across answers are entered misprinted (as other words); both misprints and correct letters exhaust the alphabet.
3174 31/10/1992 Artemus Ward Piccadilly Half the clues are DLM and have jumbled lights; remaining lights are misprinted. Whole grid reads 'YURE A GOOD FELLER ALBERT EDARD & THO I'M AGIN PRINCES AS A GINERAL THING I MUST SAY I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR GIB. WHEN YOU GIT TO BE KING TRY AND BE AS GOOD
3175 07/11/1992 Pieces of Eight III Smokey The eighteen 8-letter lights can be split into two 4-letter words, e.g. VERT-ICES; the first is entered in the position indicated, the second elsewhere.
3176 14/11/1992 Prayer Wheel Arepo Clues (to lights outside the central five rows and columns) contain superfluous words defining unclued lights (in the central five rows and columns, at the heart of which is the SATOR word-square) and PATERNOSTER (three times).
3177 21/11/1992 Windows Duck Grid is divided into sixteen 3 x 3 squares containing jumbled 9-letter words with isolated central squares, spelling 'SQUARES OF HIS MIND'. 6-letter lights are entered in two halves along edges.
3178 28/11/1992 Twelve Dots on the Map Corylus Grid represents a map of Great Britain; half the rows contain two words run together. 12 towns (correctly located) are to be replaced by dots.
3179 05/12/1992 Crossmot Mr Lemon There are two 5 x 5 grids: the first contains a magic square, whose entries give the positions of those in the second, which are all 3-letter words, forming 6- and 9-letter lights.
3180 12/12/1992 Enquire Within Law 6 italicised clues have Playfair-coded lights; tracing a QUESTION-MARK in the grid spells CHAPTER 2 VERSE 22 (which verse of Mark's gospel concerns the necessity of placing new wine in new wine-skins). Unclued lights are formed by rearranging the answers KEY: Question-mark
3181 19/12/1992 The Lost Chord — II Llig 'Chords' are AEH, BFI, CGJ, ..., ZDG. 13 answers each contain a different one (not necessarily consecutively), to be transposed to one of the other 13 on entry.
3182 26/12/1992 Round ‘O’ Ilex Grid is circular with jumbled radial lights; various circles contain 'YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA' BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN; CLARINET, BASSDRUM, TROMBONE; HENRY PURCELL.
3183 02/01/1993 Our Bridge Four Ozzie Clues are thematic; those for perimeter rows and columns are double, leading to two words to be entered as three, with the central one the appropriate compass point, e.g. RISEN, ORTHICON become RISE, NORTH, ICON.
3184 09/01/1993 The Labours of Hercules XII — Cerberus Phi Central row is THE RIVER STYX; 16 lights, paired above and below this, transfer HE, RC, UL, ES downwards and CE, RB, ER, US upwards. Remaining clues are symmetrically paired where possible; the rest are MP, spelling NOB, NUT, BEAN. 3 answers in each direc
3185 16/01/1993 Grand Slam Phil Brindall Grid is blank, with bridge hands around the sides. Each card has a light, entered inwards, clued in order of play (with thematic clues); discards lose a letter on entry, while winning cards have a letter doubled.
3186 23/01/1993 Encore Aelfre Grid comprises squares surrounded by irregular hexagons; each light is 5-letter, with one letter entered in a square and the remaining 4-letter word entered in the hexagons around it. Two perimeter rows, followed by squares, spell 'YET EACH A PART AND NON
3187 30/01/1993 Treble Magic Square Wildly Bedecked Leon Card puzzle; the pack plus two jokers is dealt into three magic squares, one 6 x 6 and the other two 3 x 3. Each rank corresponds to a letter and DLM clues lead to anagrams of rows, columns and diagonals; suits are clued numerically (C = 1, D = 2, H = 3,
3188 06/02/1993 1 Across (or the 19 Across of a 43 Across) 31 Across All letters in the grid are chosen from QWERTYUIOP; down lights are misprinted to ensure this. Across clues are MP, spelling 'THE LADY IS A MUSICIAN'.
3189 13/02/1993 O, No Phrase'll Draw Me Dimitry Clues contain fragments from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; in four rows and four columns it functions normally, while in the rest the definition is a word missing from it. The four intersections of the distinguished rows and columns on the main dia
3190 20/02/1993 Moving Ploutos 10 lights are misprinted; original letters spell MOTHERWELL, new letters LAUNCESTON.
3191 27/02/1993 Run Off in Triplicate Adam Each answer contains an R, misprinted to spell 'FESTINA LENTE', 'EILE MIT WEILE', 'HASTEN SLOWLY'.
3192 06/03/1993 Men Overboard! Swan Central 8 x 8 square is a chessboard at the beginning of a game; letters representing pieces (R, N, B, Q, K, P) are added to those of down answers to form the lights, as are IVANCHUK and KASPAROV above and below the board.
3193 13/03/1993 Timetable Hellphire Grid is blank, and represents a railway timetable, with each row a station and each down clue a journey (possibly with a connection); several squares are left blank.
3194 20/03/1993 Prayfail Enigmatist 4 Playfair codewords appear in the perimeter rows and columns. Clues to symmetrically opposite lights are paired, with encoded forms of some given; lights in central row and column are Playfair-coded using a fifth codeword. KEY: Powdering-tubs, Consumptively, Pneumogastric, Salpingetomy, Ambidextrous
3195 27/03/1993 In Out, In Out Foxglove Narrative concerning the Boat Race; certain answers lose IN on entry.
3196 03/04/1993 Which Way? Bufo Grid is blank; lights begin in any of four directions from given starting squares, and turn left or right at an L or R.
3197 10/04/1993 Division Ascot Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues (one of which is normal and the other DLM). 14 other clues lead to 7-letter words, entered jumbled in the central 7 squares of the appropriate column; central row is MASON-DIXON LINE.
3198 17/04/1993 Alibi Fenrix Each clue contains a superfluous word; the initial letter of the answer is entered in the appropriate square, the remainder elsewhere. The initial letter of the superfluous word is the fourth letter of the light.
3199 24/04/1993 Alphanumerics Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; the distinct letters of the title represent the numbers from 0 to 11, and clues are in terms of them. One row and one column correspond to each base between 2 and 12, while 4-digit lights are entered Playfair-coded. KEY: 23 May 1906 Ibsen
3200 01/05/1993 Cats BeRo Four unclued lights are boroughs disenfranchised in the Reform Acts (= title); their locations appear as superfluous words in four clues, whose answers are entered as anagrams which can be followed by -BOROUGH as placenames. Main diagonal is ROTTEN/REFORM
3201 08/05/1993 Errantful Duo Miguel All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares, formed as two 4-letter words written in opposite directions and sharing a common definition.
3202 15/05/1993 Whodunnit 3: Locked Room Mystery Mime Perimeter lights are LOCKED DOOR, D0-BOLTED-OR, WATCHORIEL, GRID DORMER. 7 suspects are pairs of definitions leading to two words of which one (the light) is the other less a letter, e.g. 'Barney Shift' leads to ALTER(C)ATION. A diagonal contains DOCTOR F
3203 22/05/1993 Saturdae + 149 Down lights are jumbled with DLM clues which contain extra letters spelling KNICKERBOCKER GLORY; across lights are items in a sundae.
3204 29/05/1993 Horizontal Bars Corylus Each column has a single, double or triple clue leading to the light(s) therein; each row (unbarred) has a double clue whose two answers are to be separated by BAR, PUB or INN.
3205 05/06/1993 Rules of Arithmetic Sabre Five answers are entered with the name of the grid number added, e.g. JABOT + THREE = DITTY; five are entered with the grid number subtracted from each letter, e.g. ABJURER - 13 = NOWHERE; five contain an X and the portions before and after it are multipl
3206 12/06/1993 Playsquares Mystery Apex Each answer loses two consecutive letters to form the light, another word; clues either define both words or define one and indicate the other subsidiarily. Playfair-coded versions of the omitted pairs are given, using four different codephrases, two for KEY: Busman's Honeymoon, Gaudy Night, Lord Peter Views the Body, Whose Body?
3207 19/06/1993 28 Across Machiavelli Each down answer loses a tree on entry.
3208 26/06/1993 The Broken Jug Plausus Grid is blank, representing a prison block; certain answers lose CON, LAG or POW on entry, and have a letter straying outside the grid, spelling JELLY, FUSE, CAK-FILE-E. Unclued lights SWAY and YAWS lead to STRANGEWAYS as the name of the prison.
3209 03/07/1993 Prize Competition Smokey Across answers lose a letter on entry, spelling TOUR DE FRANCE; top and bottom rows contain MAILLOT JAUNE and YELLOW JERSEY. Unclued lights are French placenames.
3210 10/07/1993 Brackets Noggs Each light is the centre of 3 consecutive headwords in Chambers' 1988; the other two are clued, one by definition and the other by subsidiary indication.
3211 17/07/1993 Dribs and Drabs Pabulum Across clues lack definitions, and lead to reversals of BIRDS or BARDS; 3- and 4-letter down lights have clues leading to longer words containing them.
3212 24/07/1993 Personality Pairs Lato Unclued lights are names of personalities, with symmetrically opposite lights being mutual anagrams.
3213 31/07/1993 1 Across Mog Answers to asterisked clues are entered in HEXADECIMAL, and unclued lights are perfect squares.
3214 07/08/1993 1 is for 4 of 6 (3, 3-6) Mass 23 clues are MP, spelling S, SALT, SORREL (FOR INK-STAINS). Answers to remaining clues contain a jumble of INK, to be replaced by S on entry.
3215 14/08/1993 Ringing the Changes Llig In five answers AU is replaced by O on entry; ten lose a letter on entry, spelling BRUNNHILDE; in six FAFNER becomes DRAGON and in six others DRAGON becomes NOTUNG; in five a god is reversed.
3216 21/08/1993 Not Quite Tied Test Phil Brindall Grid represents the scorecard from the 1963 Lord's test; each light represents an innings, with letters advanced to show the score made, e.g. DRACONIC, 44 leads to DRLSONIT (0 + 0 + 11 + 16 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 17 = 44). Advances in the central 6 x 6 square are
3217 28/08/1993 Spring Symphony Bandmaster 4 Playfair-coded lights are FU-SALT-ND, C-AB-ARTON, A-SPRAT-RK, CA-JOHN-SE; clues (italicised) are anagrams of coded and uncoded versions. 5 answers lose TELLY, VISION, TV, BOX, TUBE on entry; central row is CRACKERJANORY with the J square isolated. KEY: Jack-in-the-box
3218 04/09/1993 Pairing Off Duck Six clues contain PA or MA; all other clues contain superfluous pairs of letters, spelling RIDICULE, MEDICINE, PRESIDENTS, BELIEVERS, CITIES, HISTORY, whose 'fathers' or 'mothers' are the unclued lights RABELAIS, HIPPOCRATES, VIRGINIA, AYESHA, BALKH, HERO
3219 11/09/1993 Quite Contrary Adam 12 answers are fictonal characters with first name MARY, entered as anagrams.
3220 18/09/1993 A Supplementary Problem Mr Lemon Each letter of each answer is advanced in the alphabet by the grid number.
3221 25/09/1993 Raving? Phi 8 clues are double, leading to two words with a stone sandwiched between them, e.g. BI-G EM-ONG; on entry the stone is replaced by ST (in a single square), the 8 forming a ring around AVEBURY VILLAGE (unclued). In remaining clues subsidiary indications le
3222 02/10/1993 Child’s Play (for adults only) Ozzie Theme-words HIDE (LEATHER, INTEGUMENT) and SEEK (DECODER, INVESTIGATOR) are hidden in the grid; HAYDN SIKH appear in additional squares, and HEIDSIECK (CHARLES, PIPER; MUMM, THE WIDOW) are unclued.
3223 09/10/1993 Almanac Piccadilly Each block of three rows or columns represents a month from April to November, with the checked squares representing the days. Clues are DLM, dated according to one of the squares covered, and concern relevant anniversaries. Clashes in certain squares are
3224 16/10/1993 Fours Law Clues are in sets of four, corresponding to symmetrically positioned lights, which are obtained from the answers by placing the codephrase above the rest of the alphabet in order and replacing any letter in the second row by that above it. One light in ea KEY: A joyful knight
3225 23/10/1993 a + b = c Swan In squares in even-numbered rows and columns, letters in across and down lights are added to spell A REGULAR GRID HAS THESE SQUARES BLACKED IN.
3226 30/10/1993 ∑ 2n–1 Bufo Each answer is entered as the sum of the values of its letters, using A = 1, B = 2, C = 4, D = 8, E = 16, ..., Z = 33554432; perimeter contains 'POWERS THAT WILL WORK FOR THEE'.
3227 06/11/1993 Twelve in One Highlander 8 unclued lights are linked to CROSS: DISAGREEABLE, CANTANKEROUS, ANGERED, ROILED, ANSATE, MALTESE, CELTIC, MOLINE (the last six being jumbled); diagonals spell LORRAINE, ANKH and SALTIRE, LATIN.
3228 13/11/1993 Magnum Opus: The Name of the Rose Salamanca Grid represents 'the Aedificium', with eight sections; in each, an unclued rose name affects certain answers: ALAIN (insert ALA), CASTEL (remove EL), NIL BLEU (remove BLEU), ARTISTE (replace ART by TE), PEON (answer has extra PE), SALET (remove SA), ANNA
3229 20/11/1993 MORE Columba Answers are entered with an extra M or E. Central column contains 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS'; perimeter contains 'A THEATRE PIECE TO ENGAGE ESTEEM FOR A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS THOMAS MORE'.
3230 27/11/1993 Jaywalking Ploutos Grid consists of 25 squares, each divided into a diamond and four triangles. Twenty-five 5-letter answers are entered with one letter in the diamond and the others (forming a 4-letter word) in the triangles surrounding it; the letters in the diamonds exha
3231 04/12/1993 Spot the Ball Hellphire Balls (Os) in lights are ignored in subsidiary indications; other lights have subsidiary indications which treat the answer in one of four ways: Centre forward (move central one or two letters to front), Half back (first or second half reversed), Full bac
3232 11/12/1993 Sixes and Sevens Obiter Twenty rows and columns each contain a 6- and a 7-letter word, entered cyclically. Intersections of remaining rows and columns, forming an arrangement of GRATICULE, taken with four neighbouring squares in each case, contain 5-letter words.
3233 18/12/1993 Odd One Out BeRo 4- and 5-letter lights contain only letters from A to I; setting A = 1, B = 2, ..., I = 9 they all give primes, except FACIA = 61391 = 11.5581. Taking the pth letter of the clue with number p, for p = 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, gives ERATO
3234 01/01/1994 New Year’s Resolution Dimitry Clues contain superfluous words; answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them, with N replacing O consistently; unclued lights are 'RING OUT THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW'. 'Hunting' in grid reveals BETTER ANSWERS JUMBLED IN CLUE;
3235 08/01/1994 Unplaced Mr Lemon 7-letter answers across (one in each row) have the shape 1234565 and are entered as 5653421 (i.e., as NOWHERE becomes EREWHON, to be written beneath the grid); SAMUEL BUTLER is unclued.
3236 15/01/1994 Doppelgangers Machiavelli 25 lights have clues whose subsidiary indications split the word in two and insert a double letter (different each time) to produce two words, e.g. TAN(G G)IST, RUB(Y Y)ES.
3237 22/01/1994 Set Squares Bart Numerical puzzle concerning right-angled triangles with integral sides and one angle within 1¦ of either 30¦ or 45¦.
3238 29/01/1994 An Additional Bonus Apex Clues contain superfluous words; unclued lights, transferred to second grid, read THIRTY + TWENTY + TEN + SEVEN + THREE = SEVENTY. Perimeter and central row contain SUBSTITUTE DIFFERENT NUMBERS FOR LETTERS TO GET A CORRECT SOLUTION (it is 864583 + 827083
3239 05/02/1994 Centenary Pairs Owzat ERIC HONEYWOOD PARTRIDGE (b. 06/02/1894, found in grid symmetrically opposite FINE SUGARBOWL FRANCOLIN) wrote 'Dictionary of SLANG and Unconventional English' (SHINGLE is central unclued light). Initial letters of superfluous words in across clues spell A
3240 12/02/1994 Squaring the Circle Amicus Puzzle is based on opening chorus to 'Henry V': lights in central four rows and columns are jumbled, giving 'PARDON, GENTLES ALL' in central 4 x 4 square; four perimeter lights are encoded by 'AND LET US CIPHERS TO THIS GREAT ACCOMPT' (i.e., A becomes TH,
3241 19/02/1994 Protea Aelfre Central column contains WAS IT A CAT I SAW?; certain answers lose consecutive letters CHE, HES, ESH, SHI, HIR, IRE, REC, ECA, CAT (to form other words), while final down light (unclued) is GRIN.
3242 26/02/1994 Bibble-Babble Sabre Answers are encoded by writing the alphabet above the codephrase and replacing each letter by that below it. KEY: Murmuring of innumerable bees
3243 05/03/1994 Wrong Number Ix One word of each clue defines the light at that location; the remainder is a normal clue to a light elsewhere.
3244 12/03/1994 Menu Duck Across clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SOUP, FISH, FRUIT SALAD, COFFEE; the three courses dictate the method of entry of the down answers (jumbled, with initial F as H, with jumbles of fruits missing). Reading clockwise along
3245 19/03/1994 Black Box Arcturus Clues are LL, spelling 'ALL SCIENCE IS EITHER PHYSICS OR STAMP COLLECTING'. Alternate rows and columns have letters at each end, marking potential starting and finishing points of rays whose paths through the grid are deflected by 9 atoms to be discovered
3246 26/03/1994 Choc Assortment Smokey There are 4 types of clue: Nut Cluster (part of the answer entered jumbled to form a word meaning HEAD), Soft Centres (letter P moves to the centre), Whirls (light is an anagram of the answer), Misshapes (definitions misprinted).
3247 02/04/1994 Finished Franc Unclued lights are DESCENT, CRUCIFIXION, CONDEMNATION, NAILING, STRIPPING, RECEPTION, six of the STATIONS OF THE CROSS (central isolated square contains X, surrounded by STATIONS). Clues (in random order) are MP, spelling FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FALLS, WIPI
3248 09/04/1994 Grand National Phil Brindall Lights represent the 30 jumps of the Grand National, with each containing letters which have been advanced in the alphabet a total number of places equal to the number of the jump, e.g. at Jump 15, HITCH leads to PITDN (8 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 6 = 15).
3249 16/04/1994 Call the Bet Essem Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell DEF. IN C. OF A PHRASE DEDUCED FROM TITLE MAY HELP; the phrase is BELL THE CAT, and unclued lights consist of CATs with BELLs inserted after the initial letter: P-BELL-UMA, T-ACTON-OM, P-RING-US
3250 23/04/1994 The Missing Colour Corylus 14 clues are MP, spelling ST. GEORGE'S CROSS; remaining clues omit one letter of the light in the subsidiary indication, the squares concerned lie in the central row and column, which are to be coloured red rather than filled (the remaining six colours of
3251 30/04/1994 Triangular Squares Adam Numerical puzzle; clues consist of triples of numbers representing half-lengths of the sides of a triangle, such that the sum of any two sides less the third, or the sum of all three, is a perfect square.
3252 07/05/1994 Hits Mordred MONOPOLY, NAP, BRIDGE, BATTLESHIP, PONTOON are clued without definition. 8 other lights may be rearranged (in each case except one) into a letter and a number, e.g. EBON leads to BONE = B1; the letters obtained in this way after labelling rows A to L and
3253 14/05/1994 (17, 1, 18) (23, 5, 7, 9) Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a number from 1 to 26, in the order OLNHARDTIMESUYVPBZKGWCQXFJ. Lights in each row or column are clued together, clues being either normal or multiple DLM; in the latter case the sum of the corresponding numbers for
3254 21/05/1994 26 minute clock Loda Half the answers are changed on entry: in half of these each letter is advanced ten places in the alphabet, while in the other half letters are moved ten places backwards. In remaining clues, one word is similarly treated.
3255 28/05/1994 Brontecide Plausus Half the clues are LL, with all removed letters being I; 6 clues have misprinted lights, with correct letters forming a rearrangement of NOBODY. In the top left-hand corner a STAKE is put through the EYE of POLYPHEMUS (read diagonally); in bottom right-ha
3256 04/06/1994 Inner Circle Mass Grid is circular, representing the zodiac. Radial lights are clued in twelve groups of four, one for each sector; in each group one light contains a component suggesting which 'house' should contain the four (e.g. SOUR(CE) suggests Crab), while the other
3257 11/06/1994 Inner Circle Wolfram Central 8 x 8 square is shaded, and lights entering it are jumbled. Certain Knights of the Round Table, clued without definitions, are entered along a knight's tour of the shaded region, such that numbering each square in the order visited gives an 8 x 8
3258 18/06/1994 ABC Decipher Aldhelm Italicised clues have encoded lights; a 5 x 5 square with rows and columns labelled from A to E is filled with the codeword followed by the rest of the alphabet in order (I standing for I and J), and each letter is replaced by the letter-pair consisting o KEY: Endoplasmic
3259 25/06/1994 Torque Law Each across light is paired with one down, with locations to be determined by the solver. Each pair has a double clue, and is associated with one of 16 shaded squares (the centres of the 3 x 3 squares comprising the grid); treating each light as a force b
3260 02/07/1994 Little Princess Mime Each 4-letter light is the Playfair-coded version of two 4-letter words using two codephrases; one diagonal contains the Playfair-coded form of DWARF + INFANTA (the Wilde story 'The Birthday of the Infanta' was reworked by Zemlinsky to form the opera 'The KEY: Oscar Wilde, Zemlinsky
3261 09/07/1994 Past Masters Fawley 12 unclued lights are words from the titles of albums by THE BEATLES; each clue contains a superfluous word, whose initial and final letters form an entwined double acrostic spelling 'SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND' and LENNON, MCCARTNEY, HARRISON,
3262 16/07/1994 World of Yesteryear Third Man Ten lights (surnames of the 1966 England World Cup team) are encoded using a substitution cipher. In remaining across clues subsidiary indications lead to misprinted forms of the lights; one of the two letters concerned is the coded form of the other, and KEY: They think it's all over - it is now
3263 23/07/1994 The Uncertainty Principle Phi Half the clues are normal but locations of lights must be determined; half the lights are formed from the answers by inserting or removing certain letters.
3264 30/07/1994 What’s the Odds? Amicus Numerical puzzle; the letters a, b, c, ..., z stand for the odd numbers from 3 to 53, and clues are in terms of them.
3265 06/08/1994 Farewell Medley Klick Klick's final puzzle: apart from normal clues there are Topped and Tailed, Small Change, The First Shall be Last and Just Do As You're Told.
3266 13/08/1994 Right & Left Shuffle Radix Half the across lights are reversed; down lights are jumbled. Initial letters of clues spell 'FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS' - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Alternate letters of alternate rows, read boustrophedon, spell 'THE ONLY PROFESSION FOR WHICH NO PRE
3267 20/08/1994 Ever Decreasing Circles Mynot Grid is circular, with radial lights jumbled. Outermost circle contains 'OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS' - T.S. ELIOT; second and fourth circles contain SKIMBLESHANKS, RUMPLETEAZER, MUNGOJERRIE and MACAVITY, JELLYLORUM; innermost circle contains NINE
3268 27/08/1994 Vade Mecum — II Mog Each answer loses all occurrences of a letter on entry, spelling 'EVERYMAN, I WILL GO WITH THEE, AND BE THY GUIDE' (marking Everyman no. 2500 in The Observer).
3269 03/09/1994 Is It Really? Ploutos Across answers are encoded on entry using AisLE, BisTRE, CisCO, DisMAY, EisEL, FisHY, GisMO, HisN, JisM, KisS, LisP, MisO, NisAN, OisE, PisH, RisK, SisAL, TisRI, UisT, VisOP, WisARD.
3270 10/09/1994 Absence of Character Symphonia Certain answers lose all occurrences of a letter on entry, spelling LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN and EDWARD ELGAR, each of whom used the theme of 'GOD SAVE THE KING' by THOMAS ARNE.
3271 17/09/1994 A Sting in the Tail Dave Down lights are jumbled; in each row the clue consists of a pair of definitions, with one answer being itself the definition of the light (one of the signs of the zodiac). The missing sign SCORPIO is to be written beneath the grid.
3272 24/09/1994 From One End to the Other Bufo Each across answer is entered with a letter missing, spelling the alphabet in order; subsidiary indications in down clues lead to the lights with extra letters, spelling HIGHLIGHT BRITAIN'S EXTREMITIES. Top and bottom rows, and leftmost and rightmost colu
3273 01/10/1994 Force 10 Llig Grid is blank; lights are entered in any of eight directions from given starting squares. Perimeter contains 'THE ENTRANCE OF THE CELL OPENS AND DISCOVERS X PLAYING AT CHESS'; the X is 'FERDINAND (AND) MIRANDA' , contained in the central 4 x 4 square.
3274 08/10/1994 Old _______ Psyche Half the clues are PD; the remainder lead to anagrams of the lights. Unclued lights are SPLITFOOT, NICK, ROGER, POKER, DAVY, GENTLEMAN, SCRATCH, TOAST, ONE.
3275 15/10/1994 Symphony in Four Movements Nibor Each of four 'movements' (VIVACE, LENTO, MODERATO, ALLEGRO) has three clues without definition, leading to surnames of composers; each corresponding first name has the same number of letters as the movement. To form the light in each case, the first name
3276 22/10/1994 The Plays of the Bard Salamanca Clues are LL, spelling GATECRASHERS, INTRUDERS, SORNERS, INTERLOPERS; unclued lights form 'ARE OFTEN WELCOMEST WHEN THEY ARE GONE'.
3277 29/10/1994 The Properties of Numbers Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; no two lights share an initial square, so they may be identified by their grid numbers alone. Clues are statements about the numbers 1 to 50 which are also true of the lights, e.g. 'Only 1, 8 and 27 are perfect cubes'.
3278 05/11/1994 BESS BeRo Eight answers lose YES or NO on entry, answering eight questions seeking to identify a famous person (Alfred NOYES). Five other answers must be replaced by anagrams (either synonyms of NOISE or the forename ALFRED) and then encoded using a substitution ci KEY: Landlord's black-eyed daughter
3279 12/11/1994 Twice Knightly Obiter Grid has co-ordinates, used to identify initial and final squares (two knight's moves apart) of 5-letter lights entered in king's move fashion. Other clues are LL, with each answer losing two Ks on entry.
3280 19/11/1994 Symphony in C Bandmaster Grid is blank in the shape of a letter C; all answers comprise musical notes (A to G and DO, RE, MI/ME, FA, SO, LA, TI/TE/H) and are entered with notes as single letters, e.g. BALAAMITE becomes BAAAEB.
3281 26/11/1994 54 Across Yielded By a 44 Down’s Trap So 29 Down Columba 12 answers lose PARADISE, EDEN or HEAVEN on entry; 12 other clues are PD, leading to characters who fall in the poem.
3282 03/12/1994 We Came Fishing Apex Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'THIS BE THE VERSE YOU GRAVE FOR ME'. Perimeter and central row contain 16 words, each with one or two letters removed (spelling ROBERT LOUIS STEVE
3283 10/12/1994 Whorls Adam Grid is a series of spirals, with eight groups of three 8-letter radial lights; in each group one is a name associated with RLS, one is obtained from an 11-letter answer by removing R, L, S in order, and one is encoded by adding the first light.
3284 17/12/1994 Fifty-Tiffy Sabre Each row and column contains two lights, one being jumbled; there are no unchecked letters.
3285 24/12/1994 Brassless Load Alban Many lights are omitted from a narrative ''TWAS CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE'.
3286 31/12/1994 Ways of entering Waterloo Grid is blank; 12 lights are entered in special ways, e.g. BLunderED, HUNTING-GroundS.
3287 07/01/1995 Basin Mespot Perimeter contains 'SUSPICIOUS MINDS', 'KING CREOLE', 'HEARTBREAK HOTEL', 'HOUND DOG'. Clues are MP, spelling 'ALL SHOOK UP' (changing TALLET to TLALET and CALLERS tO CLLAERS), 'JAILHOUSE ROCK' (changing QUOD to UODQ and STIR to SIRT), 'WOODEN HEART' (cha
3288 14/01/1995 Part-exchange (with 25% standard deposit) Jago Clues are DLM; the four corners of the grid are completed in four different ways, as spelt out along diagonals: NORM (normal), SORT (with letters in alphabetical order), CODE (with the nth letter advanced n places in the alphabet) and TURN (reversed).
3289 21/01/1995 Prosaic? Le Gallois 15 clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SIR THOMAS BROWNE; half the remaining clues have subsidiary indications including extra letters, spelling NAT: LONDON SIXTEEN FIVE; the rest are MP, spelling DIED SIXTEEN EIGHTY TWO. Unclued
3290 28/01/1995 BR’s Home Base Wolfram Numerical puzzle in base 4, with diamond-shaped grid; the letters A, B, C, ..., U (excluding I and O) stand for different primes up to 197. Puzzle commemorates the centenary of the birth of Babe Ruth.
3291 04/02/1995 Coordination Duck Rows and columns are labelled with numbers from 1 to 13. In certain squares clashes are averted by advancing the letter in the across light the number of places given by the row and the letter in the down light the number of places given by the column; th
3292 11/02/1995 65 Caper Each clue has one or more superfluous words; initial letters of those in the first 25 are those of the numbers from 1 to 25 (not in numerical order), while those in the last 11 spell MAGIC SQUARE, describing what is formed when the numbers are placed in a
3293 18/02/1995 Innards Machiavelli Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented both initially and terminally, in each case by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light.
3294 25/02/1995 Optimist Fenrix There are 3 types of clues: some clues have superfluous words, whose initial letters are misplaced in the answers; some clues have a letter inserted, to be removed from the answers; some clues have a letter missing, to be inserted in the answers. In clue
3295 04/03/1995 A Short Tale Mr Lemon 9 clues are quotational allusions to riddles posed by Squirrel NUTKI(N) to the Owl O(N)LD BROWN; remaining clues are MP, spelling MRS WILLIAM HEELIS NEE H BEATRIX POTTER.
3296 11/03/1995 Whodunnit Monk Double letters in answers are ignored in subsidiary indications; such letters are DELBUOD (doubled up) and replaced by a STAR to form the seven brightest stars in the constellation Orion. The letters concerned spell DOGSTAR, a synonym for SIRIUS; the lett
3297 18/03/1995 Musical Chairs Elefa In 7 clues a type of TEA has replaced a word meaning TWO; in 7 lights the reverse replacement occurs. Grid contains 'PICTURE YOU UPON MY KNEE' in an appropriate shape.
3298 25/03/1995 Treasure Hunt II, or 19 to 63 Hellphire Grid is blank and represents part of the earth's surface. Clues are in numerical order; those to (AN)DANTE, BEATRICE (entered in central X) and eight geographical locations have no definitions.
3299 01/04/1995 Station Dimitry Each row and column contains one letter ignored in subsidiary indications; read by column from left to right they spell STARTING-POINT (and all clues concerned begin with a definition of POINT), whereas read by row from top to bottom they spell TRAIN-SPOT
3300 08/04/1995 Hangover Plausus Certain squares contain different fragments from across and down lights which when put together form battles, to be represented by crossed swords. Unclued lights are also swords: WHITEARM, MORGLAY, DAMASKIN, WASTER, ANLACE, SIMI. Diagonals contain WAGRAM,
3301 15/04/1995 Hangover Cure Franc Answers meeting the edge of the grid are too long and must letters which overhang the grid removed. Top and bottom row contain 'TYRANTS MORE CRUEL THAN PROCRUSTES ...'; down clues contain superfluous words whose initial and final letters form '... OLD, WH
3302 22/04/1995 Cipher Noggs Five different substitution ciphers are used for both clues and lights.
3303 29/04/1995 Unsquare Dance Googly Numerical puzzle concerning triples of numbers such that the sum of the square roots of the first two is the square root of the third.
3304 06/05/1995 Carte Blanche Corylus Grid is blank; in the completed grid there are 26 numbered squares, containing A to Z in order.
3305 13/05/1995 Sketch upon Grid F Law Letters appearing in answers are restricted to the 18 occurring in DESIGNFUL PATCHWORK; other letters in clues, preamble and title are to be ignored. At two squares in each 5 x 5 square (eight in the case of the central one) the letters in across and down
3306 20/05/1995 A piece of cake Smokey 15 clues are LL, spelling CUT AND COME AGAIN; 17 other answers have their final letters removed and the remainder repeated to form the lights, all words, e.g. CHOOM leads to CHOOCHOO.
3307 27/05/1995 Across the Divide Phi Each row has a clue defining two words each of between 6 and 8 letters; removing 0, 1 or 2 (consecutive) letters from each leaves two 6-letter lights (to which subsidiary indications refer), entered cyclically within the row from starting squares to be de
3308 03/06/1995 802701 Aldhelm Answers to italicised clues are entered either forwards or backwards in a word meaning 'time' to form a new word, e.g. S-KID-PAN, H-ARB-OUR. Other across clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell MERCURY SPRINGS, suggesting H.G. WELLS (
3309 10/06/1995 Use a Pencil Ploutos Clues are MP, spelling 'HERE IS NO LIGHT SAVE WHAT FROM HEAVEN IS'. Top and bottom row answers are ADDITIONALLY and SUBTRACTIONS; adding or subtracting letters given by down answers leads to ERASE EVERYTHING SEND BLANK.
3310 17/06/1995 Tmesis Fawley For each light of more than 5 letters, either the light is a word and the clue consists of a definition interrupting the subsidiary indication, or the light is one word within another and the clue defines both while indicating the whose subsidiarily. Othe
3311 24/06/1995 One and Only Serendip Clues are presented in alphabetical order of answer; each answer loses all repetitions of letters. Perimeter contains 'SINGULARITY IS ALMOST INVARIABLY A CLUE' - CONAN DOYLE.
3312 01/07/1995 A Word from our Sponsor Ricshaw All letters of the word PENGUIN are to be removed from the grid to leave blank squares in the shape of CUP, reflecting the change of sponsorship.
3313 08/07/1995 Tour de France Peeper Grid is in the shape of France. Lights are cyclic permutations of the answers; in the grid may be traced JACQUES ANQUETIL, BERNARD HINAULT, EDDY MERCKX.
3314 15/07/1995 Artists Meursault Clues all lack definitions, but answers are all ANIMALS, some entered using a NEW ORDER; unclued lights are obtained using various other pop artists as subsidiary indications.
3315 22/07/1995 Roulette Miguel Grid is circular and represents a roulette wheel. Radial lights are 6-letter and of three types: normal with clues having extra letters (spelling YOUR CROUPIER); jumbled; and 7-letter answers with one letter removed (forming unclued lights CASINO DEALER a
3316 29/07/1995 PrimeVal Amicus Numerical puzzle; the letters a, b, c, ..., z (excluding o) stand for the prime numbers from 2 to 97 in some order, and clues are in terms of them.
3317 05/08/1995 Fifth Amendment Adam Each answer loses its initial one, two or three letters (the amount removed being one fifth of the length, rounded to the nearest integer); IRIS MURDOCH and 'A SEVERED HEAD' are among the unclued lights.
3318 12/08/1995 Last Out Loda Puzzle concerns the final test innings of D.G. BRADMAN, dismissed by W.E. HOLLIES; letters of the former are replaced by corresponding ones of the latter, and initial letters of superfluous words in clues spell HE WAS BOWLED BY A GOOGLY SECOND BALL. In ei
3319 19/08/1995 What the El? BeRo Lights of fewer than 8 letters have clues whose subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling UNCHECKED A IS ONE ETC.; taking unchecked letters in across lights in this fashion (with O representing 0) and inserting a decimal point gives 1.6180339
3320 26/08/1995 Dactyls and Spondees Phil Brindall Answers form twenty 'Virgilian hexameters', consisting of six dactyls or spondees, where each letter represents a syllable; dactyls are entered across and spondees down.
3321 02/09/1995 Stars and Stripes Columba Answers are entered jumbled; clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THE FIRST VERSE OF A SONG OF TWELVE ACROSS IS SET IN ALTERNATE COLUMNS (the answer to 12 Across being EXPERIENCE), the columns forming 'TIGER! TIGER! BURNING BRIGHT
3322 09/09/1995 Back to Bolivia Pabulum One third of the clues are DLM (and refer to Bolivia); one third are normal but answers are misprinted to form entries in volume 2 of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (on whose spine appears the title); one third contain superfluous words,
3323 16/09/1995 Listeners Obiter Unclued lights are Friends (FOX, FRY, PENN, BARCLAY), Romans (EMPEROR, PRAETOR, CENSOR, SENATOR) and Countrymen (CLODHOPPER, HAYSEED, BOOR, HODGE), together with MARK ANTONY. Clues have letters inserted in or omitted from definitions, or are DLM with extr
3324 23/09/1995 1A / 56A Mass Italicised clues have answers containing numbers, to be entered as numerals, e.g. FOURGON becomes 4GON. Other clues are DLM with letter-mixtures involving extra letters, spelling 'TO NUMBERS I'LL NOT BE CONFIN'D' - C.H. WILLIAMS; the quotation appears as
3325 30/09/1995 Invisible Ink Sabre Half the clues in each direction are given but their answers are to be encoded using a substitution cipher; other clues are not given, but their lights are normal.
3326 07/10/1995 X Ozzie Grid is blank; clues are grouped by light-length and given in alphabetical order of light within each group.
3327 14/10/1995 Conversation Piece Hysterix Symmetrically opposite lights have double LL clues; placing the letters removed outside the grid, transferring letters in certain outer squares to a separate row and reading it, outer squares and central row and column spell ''OH, THE TIMES ... SECOND-FIN
3328 21/10/1995 Would not you …? MynoT Clues are printed as though misheard; unclued lights are trees (title should have been "Wood (not yew)") together with CLUE and CLEW.
3329 28/10/1995 Alphanumerics II Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; the distinct letters of the title represent the numbers from 0 to 11, and clues are to words containing them alone, the lights being the products of the numbers concerned. One row and one column correspond to each base between 2 and 12.
3330 04/11/1995 Key Numbers Le Gallois Answers beginning with A to G have the initial letter added to each subsequent letter to form the light, e.g. FLUE leads to FRAK.
3331 11/11/1995 Polymath Ix Clues contain superfluous words; answers are entered jumbled, such that each unchecked letter is the initial letter of the superfluous word - these spell 'I HAVE TAKEN ALL KNOWLEDGE TO BE MY PROVINCE'.
3332 18/11/1995 Bad Lot Duck Some clues have superfluous letters added, spelling 'ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY'; some answers lose jumbles of sheep on entry; 4 lights are Playfair-coded. KEY: G.F. Handel
3333 25/11/1995 Thirty-six Law 36 clues are LL, spelling CAMPION - 'LOOK TO THE LADY' - MARGERY ALLINGHAM. Remaining clues are normal, but in their lights TWELVE TREES (nom de guerre assumed by Campion in the book) are to be entered as TWELVE TEES, arranged in TWELVE THREES (alternativ
3334 02/12/1995 Every Second Counts Bureaucat Clues contain superfluous words, whose second letters spell T.C. - 'I HOPE WE ENGLISH WILL LONG MAINTAIN OUR GRAND TALENT POUR LE SILENCE'. Alternate letters of top and bottom rows spell THOMAS CARLYLE; ECCLEFECHAN, CHELSEA and CRAIGENPUTTOCK may be found
3335 09/12/1995 A Sop To Cerberus Teapoy Grid is circular, with jumbled 5-letter radial lights. Outermost circle contains 'IS THERE ANYTHING IN LIFE SO DISENCHANTING AS ATTAINMENT?', from 'THE HANSOM CAB' (third circle) by RLS (innermost circle).
3336 16/12/1995 The Plays of the Bard — II Salamanca Down lights are jumbled, with only letters appearing in correct squares forming 'WHAT STRONGER BREASTPLATE ...' in an appropriately-shaped region; six across answers lose a word meaning 'taint' centrally (quotation concludes '... than a heart untainted?')
3337 23/12/1995 Christmas Cards Smokey There are 4 types of clue: Chase the Ace (LL with A omitted); Find the Lady (part of the answer is a girl's name, to be entered in a random position within the light); Rummy (the light is an anagram of the answer); Snap (clue defines two words, each being
3338 30/12/1995 A Commodius Vicus Aragon Down answers either gain or lose a letter on entry, spelling READ THE FIRST AND LAST SENTENCES; central across light (unclued) is 'FINNEGANS WAKE'. Across clues are run together in a passage of prose, with superfluous words whose initial letters spell JAM
3339 06/01/1996 Endangered Species Machiavelli 25 lights are formed by removing creatures, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, from longer words; clues define both words.
3340 13/01/1996 A Colour Symphony Bandmaster Down clues contain superfluous words, which may be paired (mostly) to form definitions of ten words or phrases involving colours: WHITE SQUIRE, GREYHOUND, BLACK LUNG, PINK EYE, RED HERRING, ORANGE ROOT, YELLOW DOG CONTRACT, GREEN CARD, BLUE-STOCKING, PURP
3341 20/01/1996 The Hunting of the Quark Blank Grid is hexagonal and comprises equilateral triangles. Lights are entered in six directions, named after the six flavours of quark: up and down are entered normally; sideways (for strange) and centre (for charm) are entered as one-word anagrams; top (for
3342 27/01/1996 2, 10, 8, 4, 0, 0, 12, 5, 13 Aldhelm Puzzle concerns a league of four football teams; eight clues give the scores in eight matches, with the numbers of letters omitted from definition and answer being the numbers of goals scored by the home and away teams. The full league table is to be comp
3343 03/02/1996 Double Entendre II Gos 10 lights appear in Chambers' only in etymological form; these are correctly positioned, but the locations of others must be determined.
3344 10/02/1996 Good for Nothing Dimitry Four columns of the grid, read across rather than down, spell LATERAL THINKING HAS BEEN COINED TO DESCRIBE THIS: DE BONO.
3345 17/02/1996 Double fault Gioconda 15 clues are MP, spelling PRINTER'S DEVILRY; remaining clues are PD.
3346 24/02/1996 Unfair Leo There are 3 types of clue: subsidiary indications leading to anagrams of the lights; subsidiary indications leading to other lights; definitions being incorrect. Unclued lights are words connected with funfairs lacking their initial letters.
3347 02/03/1996 Take Your Partners Llig 25 clues lack definitions and lead to words (mainly proper nouns, all beginning with different letters of the alphabet) associated with the lights, e.g. OCCAM leads to RAZOR, QUEENSBURY leads to RULES; a 26th light (SHELTER) is unclued, and its partner (A
3348 09/03/1996 Pay In The End Owzat Grid represents a TESCO STORE (anagrams of two lights): top row is CAR-P, FREE P, P LOT (with P standing for parking); there is a revolving DOOR; there are three TROLLEYs heading in various directions; bottom row is MATE, LATON, PASS (three check-outs).
3349 16/03/1996 Deregistration Essem 6 lights have subsidiary indications leading to longer words from which DOCTORs are removed (3 being 'doctored dice'); unclued lights are all meanings of DOCTOR.
3350 23/03/1996 Up and Down Doubleshooter Symmetrically opposite lights are entered in opposite directions and in each case one clue leads to both.
3351 30/03/1996 Treble Chance Foxglove Clues are to be taken in threes, with one in each three being MP, spelling TRIDIMENSIONAL; 8 answers are each members of a trio, with the light being one of the other members and the initial letters of the third members spelling TRIPLETS.
3352 06/04/1996 The Downy Bear Mr Lemon Clues contain pairs of superfluous words, whose initial letters spell IF ABC LIE ON A LINE AND LMN LIE ON A LINE THEN THE INTERSECTS OF AM, BL; AN, CL; BN, CM LIE ON A LINE (the statement of Pappus' theorem). Top row contains A, B, C and bottom row L, M,
3353 13/04/1996 Knights’ Tour Wolfram Lights are entered along two knight's tours.
3354 20/04/1996 Saving Space Waterloo Each answer has two halves differing in a single letter, and is entered with the two letters in the same square, e.g. TRESTLES is entered as T R/L E S.
3355 27/04/1996 Diabolical Cuboidal Squares Oyler Numerical puzzle; clues are quadruples (a, b, c, d) with a¦ + b¦ + c¦ = d¦.
3356 04/05/1996 Four-letter words Kea Four italicised clues are subsidiary indications to NIGEL LAWSON, LEON BRITTAN, NEIL KINNOCK, DENIS HEALEY; the lights are formed by reversing the first name and inserting the initial letter of the surname, giving LEGLIN, NOBEL, LIKEN, SHINED. The unclued
3357 11/05/1996 Spot the word Play Apex Half the clues are pairs of definitions to words where one (the light) is formed by omitting a pair of consecutive letters from the other. Playfair-coded versions of the pairs are given, and the perimeter is the Playfair-coded version of '... TO PRICK THE KEY: I have no spur
3358 18/05/1996 Mixed Grill Arcturus 6 clues are PD, leading to SAUSAGE, BACON, TOMATO, LIVER, CUTLET, KIDNEY; remaining clues are MP, spelling 'EACH BLOCK CUT SMOOTH AND WELL FITTING'. Eight isolated squares are to be cut out and the solution folded about the horizontal axis (marked FOLD HE
3359 25/05/1996 “Catch 22” Mass 22 clues contain superfluous letters, spelling THE DOUBLE BIND SITUATION; remaining 22 clues have DEFINITIONS IN SUBSID. PARTS (unclued central row and column).
3360 01/06/1996 Guzzle! (Gasp!) MynoT Each clue contains a superfluous word or phrase, defining another word which shows how to alter the answer to form the light, e.g. 'Accidents found in cloudy spots' leads to CRASHES, CAST (= found), giving TRASHES.
3361 08/06/1996 The Movie Channel Loda Grid represents a film clip; clues are DLM in the form of film reviews, and are presented in 7 groups, one for each day of the week, with locations of lights within groups to be determined. In each group a single letter is consistently removed from the an
3362 15/06/1996 Open Doors Cheiron All clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THE FAT DIRECTOR, THE FAT CONTROLLER, SIR TOPHAM HATT - the person in control of the SODOR RAILWAY (bottom row), created by THE REV. W. AWDRY (rightmost column). The first 11 down lights (un
3363 22/06/1996 An Agreeable Disposition? Symphonia Grid is blank; lights are entered in any of eight directions from given starting squares.
3364 29/06/1996 Sleeve Note Monk Central row contains ENGLISH CHANNEL (= La Manche, hence title); five across lights in top half are English words whose French equivalents are across lights in bottom half, with clues being subsidiary indications to the pair, given in random order. Other
3365 06/07/1996 Holiday Directions BeRo Alternate letters in central row, column and main diagonals spell PANGKOR, TANGIER, BANGKOK and MARGATE; one (PANGKOR) is to be determined by following directions starting from WIGSTON and involving digit sums of certain lights.
3366 13/07/1996 Bufo’s World Tour Bufo Superfluous words in clues form preamble: "Each answer is entered in diagram with on additional letter which is never unchecked. After finishing puzzle don't send in printed grid. Instead send picture postcard listing eight places visited on world tour. T
3367 20/07/1996 Slummer Sabre Unclued lights are types of hut; a light traced along knight's moves represents the day's travel from the final square of one to the initial square of the next. Other lights are misprinted.
3368 27/07/1996 Around the Squares Duck Twenty-five 9-letter lights are entered jumbled in 3 x 3 blocks centred on lettered squares, which contain 'MEANDERING WITH A MAZY MOTION'; ten other lights follow a path around the lettered squares.
3369 03/08/1996 Our Hero Hung Ark 9 clues (numbered 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34) are LL, spelling FIBONACCI (main diagonal is LEONARDO - PISA). Other clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell PRAISE OLD FILM FOR 'THE LISTENER', a clue to SELL (to be written beneath the
3370 10/08/1996 Endgame Charybdis Unclued lights are SWEETHEART, RECTO, CURRENT, DRONE, NITROGEN, HOSPITAL, PEKOE, suggesting E, R, I, B, N, H, T; the positions of these letters in the phrase TRINE TO THE NUBBING-CHEAT are given. Clued lights SECOND, QUESTION, DUNDERHEAD and diagonal word
3371 17/08/1996 A Puzzle With A Catch Phi Grid is circular; in each of 12 sectors there are 3 radial lights, one jumbled, one with a clue containing a superfluous letter, and one (a fish) unclued, with its initial letter entered outside the grid (the letter being the superfluous letter of the pre
3372 24/08/1996 Double-Cross Word Plausus Rows and columns have normal clues to words contained therein, run together with letter-mixtures of remaining letters at beginning or end. Four clues are given to 'crosses' of diagonal 4- and 3-letter words. Four bars are given; remainder are to be entere
3373 31/08/1996 MA Law Key word is MANXMAN: unclued lights are FELAFEL, DERIDER, INGOING, DOSADOS, all similarly having matches in 1st and 5th, 2nd and 6th, and 3rd and 7th positions; certain clues contain 7-letter words with two matches out of three, with central letters spell
3374 07/09/1996 Enclosure Poat Seven across lights are coins and units of currency; perimeter contains 'PLEIDIOL WYF IM GWLAD', 'DECUS ET TUTAMEN', 'NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT' (with doubled letters elided).
3375 14/09/1996 The Plays of the Bard III Salamanca Unclued lights are 'FORBEAR TO JUDGE, FOR WE ARE SINNERS ALL': some answers lose RULE, HEAR, FIND, RATE, SEE, DEEM, TRY, SIT on entry; some answers are jumbled; some are 'sinners', found in jumbled form in quotations.
3376 21/09/1996 Grand Slam Phil Brindall Grid represents a hand of bridge at which North bids 6S but West overbids 7C (successfully). Lights are entered inwards from the relevant sides, gaining S, H, D or C to show the suit played and A, K, Q or J if appropriate.
3377 28/09/1996 Morning Service Nibor 28 clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters are those unchecked in the perimeter quotation 'THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT'. Grid contains (in shape of a cross) LOOK AT THIRD LETTER OF CLUES; applying this to the
3378 05/10/1996 Thirty One Radix Thirty squares contain clashes between across and down lights, to be resolved by working modulo 31 and adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing numerical values of letters in the four quarters of the grid, the clashes forming appropriately a plus sign
3379 12/10/1996 Seating Plan Machiavelli In each across answer, the chemical symbol for the element whose atomic number is that of the light is replaced by its successor in the periodic table.
3380 19/10/1996 Syndicate VIII Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; the ten letters in the title stand for different numbers between 1 and 49, and clues are in terms of them. Eight rows and columns represent selections of six lottery numbers chosen by eight members of a syndicate; two had three of the si
3381 26/10/1996 Mixed Doubles Ix Clues are to be taken in pairs: in each, one is LL, spelling 'TRADITION APPROVES ALL FORMS', while the other light is jumbled such that all unchecked letters are equal to that omitted in the LL light.
3382 02/11/1996 Souvenir of West Bay Adam Puzzle concerns 'THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE' (top row and rightmost column): 11 clues define the light and a keyword from the poem, and contain a mixture of the combined letters; leftmost column and bottom row contain 'ALL A-GLIMMER' and 'A PURPLE GLOW' f
3383 09/11/1996 Nattier Guy Mordred In five pairs of clues to symmetrically opposite lights, definitions have been interchanged; theme is THE BLUES SINGERS (unclued central row), with one light in each pair being a sort of BLUE and the other being a SINGER. One other pair, AZURE and SMITH,
3384 16/11/1996 14 v 31 Mr Lemon All 39 lights have one letter moving towards the back, spelling 'THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS' - J. BUCHAN (LORD TWEEDSMUIR).
3385 23/11/1996 A Showbiz Addiction Lato Each row contains two lights, obtained by removing letters from the front of the first answer and the back of the second; the letters removed form CAPE, HAT, GLOVES, BOA, BOLERO, BELT, DRESS, BOOTS, GARTER, NYLONS, BASQUE (while in the final row GEE-STRIN
3386 30/11/1996 Eight Ways Alcuin Grid is blank and comprises rhombi; lights are entered in any of eight directions. Main diagonals contain THESE WILL BE COLOURED IN WHITE; letters are to be removed and grid coloured to produce a St. Andrew's cross.
3387 07/12/1996 Explanations Waterloo Where two clues share the same number, one answer contains IS and explains how the other is to be altered to form the light. Each of the other clues contains a superfluous word containing IS, which explains how another word in the clue is to be altered be
3388 14/12/1996 No-no Obiter Unclued lights are phrases from which the numbers ONE, TWO, ..., TEN have been removed. Some clues have lost either NO or a number, which must be restored before solving; in the remainder the answer suffers a similar loss on entry.
3389 21/12/1996 Waterstone’s Ricshaw Across clues contain superfluous letters; down clues have subsidiary indications leading to the light with one letter advanced by a certain amount, to be interpreted as another letter; together these spell 'THIS MUSIC CREPT BY ME UPON THE WATERS' - FERDIN
3390 28/12/1996 Pin the Tail on the Donkey II Smokey The 32 answers which are creatures are entered with the last letter in any position.
3391 04/01/1997 Pas Si Ton Kea The last letter of each answer is moved to the beginning of the next; PROVECTION appears in the centre of the main diagonal.
3392 11/01/1997 Boundary Apex Each row or column has its clues run together. Boundary contains GROUP WITH A NEW CRICKET BAT - TAVERNER COULD BE AFTER ONE!, the clue to INVERTEBRATA.
3393 18/01/1997 Key Ring Mass Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, half having LL clues spelling A SET OF SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLES (whose Playfair-coded version is provided); one circle contains words meaning KEY. KEY: Tynwald
3394 25/01/1997 Angles RadGraDeg Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z stand for the numbers from 1 to 26 in some order, and clues are in terms of them, often involving angles.
3395 01/02/1997 A-maze-ing The Tall'n Grid has only some bars provided; HOLLYWOOD STONE, HAMPTON COURT, CRETAN LABYRINTH are clued without definition. The maze can be traced from the top left corner to the centre, moving through bars (locked doors) by removing keys (A, B, C, ..., G) from one
3396 08/02/1997 Pub Crawl Aragon Each row of the grid represents an hour from 12:00 noon to 11:00 p.m., with no vertical bars in the top four and bottom four rows when the pub crawl took place; clues in each of these rows are run together, with those to the later rows subject to wrong po
3397 15/02/1997 Rueoc ed Irc Le Gallois 19 clues are MP, spelling 'BUT O HEART, HEART, HEART'; in perimeter clues (given in random order) the central one or two letters of each word spell one of a pair of lovers, the light being the other. CONSTANT LOVERS must be shaded at the heart of the grid
3398 22/02/1997 All Square Dimitry Grid is blank, with numbers indicating squares through which lights pass (their directions not being given). The grid is to be dissected into four pieces which may be reassembled into a larger square with jagged edges around a central 7 x 7 hole; there ar
3399 01/03/1997 A Musical Offering Bandmaster 14 answers contain jumbles of ENIGMA, to be replaced by the title of one of Elgar's variations (in order); the penultimate title is ***, and crossing lights therefore have STAR replaced by *.
3400 08/03/1997 Wheeler-dealing Sabre Grid is blank; each row and column contains two lights, entered cyclically, with starting squares to be determined. Three answers in each direction are horses and are to be replaced by other horses on entry.
3401 15/03/1997 Enigma Variation Swan Half the across answers are encoded on entry. Encoding uses a cyclic sequence of the 26 letters with a starting position; each letter of the answer determines the number of places to be moved through the sequence to arrive at the encoded form of the lette
3402 22/03/1997 Minus Two, Plus One Gioconda Across answers each lose a different double letter on entry; down lights are all jumbled, and in 26 the answer gains an extra letter (different each time) on entry.
3403 29/03/1997 All at Sea Franc Six clues lack definitions and lead to boats (which are not lights), whose second letters spell ARMADA, to be written beneath the grid. Remaining clues either have definitions confused with subsidiary indications, or have definitions leading to anagrams o
3404 05/04/1997 Memorable Occasion Monk Perimeter contains ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN - 'ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH'. Clues have subsidiary indications leading to the lights with extra letters, spelling (in cyclic order) SHADED SQUARES SUGGEST HOW FOURTEEN SQUARES MUST BE FILLED; shaded
3405 12/04/1997 25 Across Psyche Clues either have extra letters in definitions or have subsidiary indications leading to the lights with extra letters, spelling 'THERE WERE THREE GORGONS WITH SERPENTS ON THEIR HEADS'; nine answers are replaced by anagrams to form MARBLE, GRANITE, SARD,
3406 19/04/1997 Morrissey 149 Grid comprises nine linked morris designs, each containing three 8-letter lights entered clockwise or anti-clockwise, clued in alphabetical order, and eight 3-letter lights entered inwards.
3407 26/04/1997 Casting Out Nines Oyler Numerical puzzle in base 9; no two lights share an initial square, so they may be identified by their grid numbers alone. Clues are statements about the numbers 1 to 45 (= 41 in denary) which are also true of the lights, e.g. 'Only 1, 8 and 30 are perfect
3408 03/05/1997 RS Glow Worm Each letter of the alphabet is encoded once to resolve a clash; 9 blank squares must be left in the shape of a cross at the centre of the grid; unclued lights are ELECTORIAL, CASTING VOTES, SECRET BALLOT. Ten clues have subsidiary indications leading to t KEY: Proportional representation
3409 10/05/1997 Alphabetical Jigsaw Symphonia There are 31 clues, one for each consonant and two for each vowel; in each case the letter appears as the initial or final letter of the answer; positions of lights must be determined.
3410 17/05/1997 Poison and Antidote Arachne Some answers are replaced by opposites on entry, e.g. MIDNIGHT leads to NOON. Remaining clues have extra letters, spelling BIBLE, VOLTAIRE, B. RUSSELL; unclued lights are AMOS, GENESIS, MICAH and CANDIDE, ZADIG, ZAIRE.
3411 24/05/1997 Chequered Flag The Tall'n Grid represents a chequered flag; down lights are clued in columns and overlap. Circuit lights are 6-letter, entered clockwise; 11 of them are types of WHEELS, the centres of 10 of which may be joined to form TT, with the 11th (NORTON) being shaded.
3412 31/05/1997 Put Your Heads Together Arcturus In nine squares clashes are resolved by removing the initial letters from the two answers and adding them to produce the letter to be inserted in the square, e.g. PARAGONITE, BUNS (crossing at 3rd and 2nd letters respectively) lead to ARRAGONITE, URNS (si
3413 07/06/1997 Typo Noggs All answers are misprinted on entry; in each case a single-word definition of the light appears as a superfluous word in the clue to the crossing light.
3414 14/06/1997 36 I — The 31 Hellphire Apart from those in the first two and last two columns, all lights are jumbled; top four rows of internal part of grid contain 'LASCIARE OGNI SPERANZA VOI CH'ENTRATE', while HORNET, BEMBEX, WASP, VESPA appear in shaded squares underneath.
3415 21/06/1997 Coat of Arms Peeper There are 3 types of clues: normal (with answers entered across or down), MP (with answers entered diagonally), spelling 'BETTER'N ANY OTHER FROG', and PD (with answers entered along chevrons). Some squares contain AZURE, VERT, GULES, OR, ARGENT, SABLE, P
3416 28/06/1997 Playback Loda Down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THE WEATHER and BEATING RETREAT. Across clues are programme descriptions; all across lights (some being unclued) have code numbers provided, made up of the atomic numbers of chemical symbol
3417 05/07/1997 Brick Wall Quinapalus Grid is blank and represents a game of Tetris in which all squares are filled. Each row contains a clued 10-letter light; clues are given to bricks in order of appearance, with the definition leading to a 5-letter word from which one letter determining th
3418 12/07/1997 Splaash Kea Grid is blank, with a line across just below the centre: above this line, lights in the same row or column either overlap or have intervening letters; below it, across answers may change row as they proceed. DAVID HOCKNEY is to be shaded below the line.
3419 19/07/1997 Mel, but not Kim Meursault Asterisked clues have answers omitting all letters C, H, O on entry, with subsidiary indications leading to the lights; the total omissions are C-12, H-22, O-11, giving the chemical formula for sugar. Unclued lights MADELEINE, MAID OF HONOUR, ANGELICA are
3420 26/07/1997 Headingley 81 Phil Brindall Grid represents the scorecard from the 1981 Headingley test; each light represents an innnings, with additions, mostly involving Roman numerals, to show the score made, e.g. HIVED, 102 leads to H I CV E DII.
3421 02/08/1997 Event Anon Some answers occur in a narrative about the Listener Setters' DInner; many lose the Christian name of a setter on entry. Perimeter contains 'I'VE GOT A LITTLE LIST; THEY ALL OF THEM WERE MISSED'.
3422 09/08/1997 The Plays of the Bard — IV Salamanca Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues; central column is '... A WOMAN'S HIDE' (the quotation begins 'O TIGER'S HEART WRAPPED IN ...'), with bottom row THE DUKE OF YORK and top row QUEEN MARGARET. On one side of the grid some lights meaning women
3423 16/08/1997 Cathexis Dimitry The answer to each clue is converted to a string of numbers, whose digits are then jumbled, and the whole is then translated back to a different word, e.g. DIMITRY leads to 49139201825, rearranged as 31208524919 which leads to CATHEXIS.
3424 23/08/1997 Stack of Fruit Corylus Unclued lights (cryptically in two cases), and superfluous words in 11 clues, form a limerick (see title) by RONALD KNOX: 'THERE ONCE WAS A MAN WHO SAID 'GOD MUST THINK IT EXCEEDINGLY ODD, IF HE FINDS THAT THIS TREE CONTINUES TO BE WHEN THERE'S NO-ONE ABO
3425 30/08/1997 Carte Blanche Plus Ploutos Grid is blank; in four cases where two lights share a starting square, they form a pair and the first is encoded by adding the grid number to each letter, e.g. CATS and DOGS (1 Across and Down) lead to DBUT, DOGS.
3426 06/09/1997 Directions Enclosed Adam 18 clues are LL, spelling OMIT EVERY THIRD WORD, explaining how to solve the remaining clues.
3427 13/09/1997 Friendly Fire Leo Most clues are MP, spelling NON-ATTACKING QUEENS ON CHESSBOARD; remaining lights contain a letter Q within the central 8 x 8 square, and as many as possible (eight) must be shaded so as to meet this description.
3428 20/09/1997 Snags Columba Clues have a letter either omitted or inserted, spelling 'THE LADY VANISHES', 'VERTIGO', 'FRENZY', 'THE BIRDS', describing how the lights are formed; four lights are 'PSYCHO', 'MARNIE', 'SABOTEUR', 'ROPE'; HITCHCOCK may be found in two diagonals.
3429 27/09/1997 Phone Phreaks BeRo Answers are entered in lower case, with 6-letter answers entered phonetically, complete with stress marks and accents as in Chambers' 1993; 'g bernard shaw' appears diagonally, linking 'ghoti' with 'fish'. Asterisked clues have superfluous words: the phon
3430 04/10/1997 A Catalogue Apex Symmetrically opposite lights have double LL clues; omitted letters are transferred to the boundary of the grid to create 11 words clued by misprinted definitions (spelling WATERSTONE'S), each formed by removing one letter (spelling PLAYWRIGHTS) from a pl
3431 11/10/1997 Three writers Mr Lemon Five answers omit PEN on entry; remaining clues are LL, spelling 'THEY COME AS A BOON AND A BLESSING TO MEN'. Unclued lights are PICKWICK and WAVERLEY; OWL is to be highlighted in central squares.
3432 18/10/1997 Alibi II Fenrix Each clue contains a superfluous word; the initial letter of the answer is entered in the appropriate square, the remainder elsewhere. The initial letter of the superfluous word is the fourth letter of the light.
3433 25/10/1997 Primes IV: Four Halves Piccadilly Numerical puzzle; P, R, I, M, E and S represent the first six primes in some order, and clues are in terms of these, a different correspondence being used for across clues in the top and bottom halves and down clues in the left and right halves. Each base
3434 01/11/1997 The Albingate Murder Cheiron Most clues have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling SAIC, JET, TERN, DOW, WING, BRIG, PACKET, MAN, SHIP, HOPPER, ARK, PROA; these together with KETCH must all be omitted from remaining answers on entry, the disappearances occurring wi
3435 08/11/1997 Contributions Blank Most clues have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling 'WITH POMP OF WATERS UNWITHSTOOD UNTO THE OCEAN'. Central row is THE RIVER THAMES, with various tributaries running into it vertically: STAMFORD, BEVERLEY, WANDLE, WESTBOURNE, TYBURN
3436 15/11/1997 Potiores? Petti Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell TO RESOLVE NUMEROUS AMBIGUITIES, SCAN DIAGRAM FOR KEYS INSIDE IT; down NE-SW diagonal there are two possibilities for each square, each giving lights satisfying the clues, but the preferred vers
3437 22/11/1997 The Message MynoT Answers lose letters (not necessarily consecutive) on entry, spelling moves in a game of chess; the final move Bh6 (checkmate) is to be written beneath the grid.
3438 29/11/1997 A Jigsaw Puzzle Radix Grid is blank and to be filled with jigsaw pieces, each containing the name of a saw (or EPIGRAM); each row contains two lights.
3439 06/12/1997 Cargo Sabre Some lights are jumbled; others have one word jumbled in their clues; unclued lights are items brought by the JUMBLIES.
3440 13/12/1997 Hard One? Calmac Clues (except first and last) are MP, spelling 'DIEU ME PARDONNERA. C'EST SON M+TIER' - HEINE; perimeter contains 'DORT, WO MAN B_CHER VERBRENNT, VERBRENNT MAN AUCH AM ENDE MENSCHEN'.
3441 20/12/1997 A Christmas Puzzle Smokey Some answers are entered with extra letters, spelling 'WHO WRITES THOSE LOVELY CRACKER MOTTOES?'; remaining clues are LL, spelling I'M IT WITH XMAS CRACKERS; both lead to MAXIMIST, unclued central across light.
3442 27/12/1997 Battle of the Sexes Phi Clues are headed 'Martial' (Across) and 'Marital' (Down); answers better suited to the other heading have two letters interchanged. Four unclued lights form 'NEC TECUM POSSUM VIVERE NEC SINE TE'.
3443 03/01/1998 The Top Line Obiter Top row is AURORA BOREALIS; other unclued lights are NORLAN, RUNIC, ORCADIAN, AUSTRAL, LAPP, INUIT, SEPTENTRIONAL, HEBRIDIAN, ARCTIC, SUOMI. Subsidiary indications involve an N if the light does not contain one, and ignore it if it does.
3444 10/01/1998 8 Down 12 Down Machiavelli Each of the 26 across lights can be augmented in penultimate position by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light.
3445 17/01/1998 Rogue Characters Duck There are 3 types of clue: having an extra letter, MP, and DLM with extra letters in letter-mixtures. The letters concerned spell 'IN THY ORISONS BE ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED'; unclued lights are 'remembered' (i.e., rearranged) nymphs.
3446 24/01/1998 Not Playing Fair Waterloo Four lights are Playfair-coded; in twelve clues one or two words must be decoded before the clue can be solved. KEY: Double-acting
3447 31/01/1998 And All That Uptodate Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z stand for primes and squares, and clues are in terms of them; across clues also refer to dates.
3448 07/02/1998 Op 20 Pabulum Some clues contain extra letters, spelling HORNY PLATES AT THE END OF FINGERS OR TOES (part of definition in Chambers' of NAILS); five answers lose TINGLE, PIN, TACK, BRAD, SPIKE on entry; seven others are the days of the week, replaced by words associate
3449 14/02/1998 Work or Pen Name Mordred Twelve clues are book titles; the first names of the authors are unclued lights. (Title indicates PRAENOMEN.)
3450 21/02/1998 Piano Piece Bandmaster Most down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT'; remaining down clues have had an initial letter P moved to the beginning of the clue. Each row contains two lights; a P from the second is moved to th
3451 28/02/1998 Dots on the Map Peeper Grid is in the shape of Wales; lights run in any of four directions. In certain squares, to be filled with a dot, parts of lights combine to form placenames, correctly located.
3452 07/03/1998 Anagrominoes Bundle Grid is an arrangement of dominoes. 14 different consonants are assigned in 7 pairs to the number of dots on an end of a domino; each play must be accompanied by two words, one for each end, incorporating its consonant pair and as many as possible of thos
3453 14/03/1998 The Inbetweenies Theod Nine lights are PORTMANTEAUX (1 Across), clued by the letters omitted from the two constituent words, e.g. UMSUB leads to SLURB.
3454 21/03/1998 Mixed Pairs Ploutos Five 11-letter words (whose initial and final letters form MIXED and PAIRS respectively) have been arranged into two pairs of anagrams each; the longer words are unclued lights while the shorter are clued in alphabetical order.
3455 28/03/1998 One-Time Pad Dimitry Lights are entered using repeated identical knight's moves, continuing past the edge of the grid on the other side if necessary. Perimeter spells SEND TRANSFORMED TO NORMAL ACROSS AND DOWN: ONE ACROSS IS 'EDUCE'. The single answer not to appear in the tra
3456 04/04/1998 Spot the Theme Third Man Vertical bars are not given and must be inserted; when this is done 3456 appears in the bar-pattern in the top half. Unclued lights across are TWO TO POWER SEVEN TIMES THREE CUBED; four across answers lose THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX on entry; a central diamon
3457 11/04/1998 Locating Omissions Adam Each answer loses between two and five consecutive letters on entry; the sum of the numerical values of the omissions, taken modulo 36, determines the grid number of the light.
3458 18/04/1998 Bugs Arcturus Most answers lose letters on entry, spelling 'TWO COUNTRIES DIVIDED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE'; centre of central row is ENGLISH, central column is MID-ATLANTIC, and AMERICA and BRITAIN are down lights in the left and right halves respectively. Six answers, on
3459 25/04/1998 Carte Blanche: No Tank’s Strike (4, 7) Kea Grid is blank; clues contain superfluous words, most of which are from Australia or New Zealand, the other five having initial letters ANZAC; answers lose letters on entry, spelling SUCH A FREE-FOR-ALL IN OLD FRAY AS RAID ON HELLESPONT (a clue to OPEN SLA
3460 02/05/1998 Web Arachne Grid is a spider's web and is roughly circular; half the 6-letter radial lights are jumbled, with outermost letters being initial letters of superfluous words in clues. Third ring from centre contains COMPUTER, URL, MODEM, INTERNET; fifth ring contains BU
3461 09/05/1998 A Case in Point Gos One diagonal contains the Playfair-coded version of GRIMPEN - X - MIRE; two other diagonals contain Playfair-coded versions of HOLMES and WATSON; these diagonals must be decoded. KEY: Baskervil(le), Baker St.
3462 16/05/1998 Up for the Cup Aldhelm Clues are MP, spelling 'AND EVERY CHANCE BROUGHT OUT A NOBLE KNIGHT' - TENNYSON. Certain letters are ignored in subsidiary indications; these form four knight's paths starting at the corners of the grid and ending in central isolated squares, spelling PER
3463 23/05/1998 Trout Quintet Nibor Most clues have a letter missing, which must be inserted in the answer to form the light; these spell PIANO, VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE BASS; five other clues have T and R omitted from a word in the definition, while in the remaining five the answer mus
3464 30/05/1998 Hell’s Pells Oyler Numerical puzzle concerning solutions to Pell's equation X¦ - YZ¦ = 1.
3465 06/06/1998 World Cup 98 Phil Brindall Grid is circular; puzzle concerns a computer simulation of the World Cup. The thirty-two 6-letter radial lights represent the teams, with letters advanced to show matches won, drawn and lost, goals for and against and points scored in the group stage. Cir
3466 13/06/1998 F-Fools Franc Grid represents a cricket ground; no vertical bars are given, but the lights in each row have a multiple DLM clue, and in 11 squares components contribute to fielders FINE LEG, SLIP, LONG LEG, GULLY, KEEPER, COVER, SQUARE LEG, MID-WICKET, BOWLER, MID-ON,
3467 20/06/1998 16D (9) 27 (9) Llig Across lights are jumbled; alternate rows of the grid, ignoring shaded squares, contain 'UT QUEANT LAXIS RESONARE FIBRIS MIRA GESTORUM FAMULI TUORUM, SOLVE POLLUTI LABII REATUM, SANCTE IOANNES', the source of ARETINIAN SYLLABLES (unclued).
3468 27/06/1998 The Plays of the Bard — V Salamanca In each row one light loses the letter G; nine answers lose final letters and are rearranged to form new words; LISTENER is unclued.
3469 04/07/1998 Fourth of July Mass The 13 original States of the Union occur as clues; in each case consecutive letters provide hints to the lights. Abbreviations of the 13 are removed from 13 answers; remaining clues are DLM with extra letters, spelling A CONSTITUTIONAL TAKEN BY UNCLE SAM
3470 11/07/1998 Rum Journey Aragon Subsidiary indications in across and down clues lead to misprints of the lights; the misprints spell BY A CIRCUITOUS ROUTE UNDER DARK (leading to ENGLISH DRUNKARD), and 'THE SEXTON AND THE SQUIRE'. Ten other clues lead to words all containing B; their ini
3471 18/07/1998 The Open: 19th Hole Loda Grid is blank but 18 holes contain flags; each is to contain the final letter of a light ending in O, forming the holes of the course. Remaining clues are given in normal order; CLUBHOUSE is to be highlighted and its O marked with a flag to denote the 19t
3472 25/07/1998 Marital Progression Gnivri Twelve answers lose a letter on entry, spelling an arrangement of FRANCIS BACON; unclued lights form 'WIVES ARE YOUNG MEN'S MISTRESSES, COMPANIONS FOR MIDDLE AGE, AND OLD MEN'S NURSES'.
3473 01/08/1998 Chip Ruftoc Mr Lemon Grid is a Playfair code-square, with the codeword entered in the central 3 x 3 square and remaining letters placed at random. 25 clues each lead to an 8-letter and a 4-letter word; the two halves of the former are to be separated and the sums of the numer
3474 08/08/1998 Word Deduction The Tall'n Down clues are DLM; in each of the central nine rows one answer consists entirely of letters from the title, and is to be converted to numbers by replacing each of these ten letters by a different digit. The totals (including carries) of the digits in eac
3475 15/08/1998 First Line Tribute To … Apex Just over half the clues are MP, spelling 'HEAR IT AGAIN' BY POET LAUREATE; unclued lights (including perimeter) form 'EVEN THE MOST MISFITTING CHILD WHO'S CHANCED UPON THE LIBRARY'S WORTH SITS WITH THE GENIUS OF THE EARTH AND TURNS THE KEY TO THE WHOLE W
3476 22/08/1998 Fundamentally Flawed Monk Clues are MP, spelling WHO SAID 'I HAVE HAD A DREAM, PAST THE WIT OF MAN'? Down answers are entered 'BOTTOM UP': either with final letter raised or with a synonym of BOTTOM reversed.
3477 29/08/1998 A Harrowing Time Polymath Numerical puzzle concerning a farmer's family and his fields.
3478 05/09/1998 An Anthology Serendip Top and bottom row contain 'A BUNCH OF OTHER MEN'S FLOWERS'; four down lights are scientists who gave their names to flowers (GARDEN, WEIGEL, FREES, BANKS), entered with letters in alphabetical order; other lights are clued in alphabetical order.
3479 12/09/1998 Belt Up MynoT Central unclued light is THE EQUATOR; in twelve squares parts of across and down lights contribute to form the signs of the zodiac, to be replaced by their signs.
3480 19/09/1998 Clashing Pairs Sabre Rows and columns are to be labelled by the letters of the alphabet, labels for rows forming THUMBSCREWING. There are no unchecked squares, but many contain clashes; in each case the row and column labelled by the clashing pair intersect in a square where
3481 26/09/1998 A Night at the Opera Amicus Down clues have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling GEORGE GERSHWIN'S BIRTH. There are two lights in each row, and across clues are paired; one in each pair is LL, spelling 'PORGY AND BESS'; the other is a pair of subsidiary indicatio KEY: Rhapsody in Blue
3482 03/10/1998 Hidden Word Bufo Grid is blank, with squares numbered from 1 to 144. Clues contain one or more superfluous words, which form a misprint of an indication of the number of the square where the light begins. Correct letters spell USE FIRST TWELVE TERMS IN FIBONACCI SERIES; l
3483 10/10/1998 Easy PC BeRo Grid represents a computer screen and three variously-sized windows, which must be superimposed in positions and an order to be determined. Eight 3- or 4-letter words (SORT, NEW, EXIT, FILE, RUN, CUT, MOVE, TEXT), defined by superfluous words in clues wit
3484 17/10/1998 Tacit Mystery Elgin The four across answers in the top and bottom rows all contain MEN, to be jumbled on entry. All other lights have one letter encoded using a substitution cipher, the result being given by the crossing light. The central 6 x 6 square, to be shaded, contain
3485 24/10/1998 Dube Crossor II Ascot There are two identical 9 x 9 grids, with clues at the same location paired. Each letter of the alphabet is paired with its symmetric opposite (AZ, BY, CX, ..., MN); in each double clue one answer loses a letter-pair on entry, with each grid losing the en
3486 31/10/1998 A Marvellous Game Columba Grid is a chessboard; the moves of a game are presented. Each light is entered along the moves of a piece or pawn; clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'THE GARDEN' BY ANDREW MARVELL. Grid (including blank squares) reads 'SUCH WAS
3487 07/11/1998 No! Ploutos Grid has 25 isolated squares in even-numbered rows and columns; each has a 9-letter light entered in the 3 x 3 square centred on it, and each contains a different letter so that a 5 x 5 magic square would be formed if each were replaced by its position in
3488 14/11/1998 Pen Names Smokey Ten across and all down clues are MP, spelling RUTH RENDELL'S ALTER EGO IS BARBARA VINE; the other 11 across lights have an unchecked letter replaced to form another word, the original letters being RUTHRENDELL and the replacements BARBARAVINE.
3489 21/11/1998 Dreams Rebel Some clues are LL, spelling 'CECI N'EST PAS UNE PIPE'; other clues contain extra letters, spelling RENE MAGRITTE (born 21/11/1898). Unclued lights are pipes which also have other meanings.
3490 28/11/1998 Combinations Odds Numerical puzzle concerning binomial coefficients; the letters A, B, C, ..., H, J, ..., Z stand for the numbers 2 to 26 in some order and a, b, c, ..., h, j, ..., z for 1 to 25 similarly, and clues are in terms of them.
3491 05/12/1998 Conurbation Schadenfreude Central row, unclued, is ARNOLD BENNETT; five answers TUNSTALL, BURSLEM, HANLEY, STOKE-ON-TRENT, LONGTON (clued without definition) are replaced by their fictional equivalents TURNHILL, BURSLEY, HANBRIDGE, KNYPE, LONGSHAW in Bennett's 'Five Towns' novels;
3492 12/12/1998 Crewel Kea Each row contains two lights, given a double clue lacking definitions; half are formed by removing one letter from the answer, these being inserted in the others. All these lights are English placenames. Each column contains three words with clues run tog
3493 19/12/1998 Stealth Dimitry No grid is provided; it must be constructed in the shape of a stealth bomber. All palindromic sections of odd length in answers are removed on entry; second row and column contain B-TWO OR NOT B-TWO, THAT IS THE QUESTION.
3494 26/12/1998 4, 4, 4, 5 Plausus Four 2-letter lights have LL clues, spelling a jumble of XMAS; four other clues are MP, spelling a jumble of TREE; other words of the title appear in the grid. Unclued lights are New Zealand birds, whose alternate initial and final letters spell POHUTUKAW
3495 02/01/1999 Treasure Quest Samson Subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling JESUS CHRIST, BETHLEHEM, JUDAEA, HEROD, ISRAEL, MARY, JOSEPH, EGYPT. Perimeter contains FOLLOWING A * WISE MEN FROM THE EAST PRESENT THEIR GIFTS; in the grid BALTHAZAR, MELCHIOR, CASPAR appear in rows
3496 09/01/1999 Miserable _________ Obiter Three limericks are given, the missing final word of each line being an unclued light. Fourteen clues have final words rhyming as in a Shakespearean sonnet; the locations of these lights are to be determined. Other clues, forming another limerick and vari
3497 16/01/1999 Catch and Flip Wiglaf Theme-words PSYCHO (POMP, TIC); REBECCA (LOLITA, TESS); ROPE (CORD, SEAL); TOPAZ (ZIRCON, OPAL). Title hints at HITCHCOCK.
3498 23/01/1999 Subvert Pabulum Lights entering a certain 6 x 6 square (to be shaded) are jumbled; remaining clues contain extra letters, alternately in pairs and singly, spelling 'A GREEK INVOCATION TO CALL FOOLS INTO A CIRCLE'. The conjuror JAQUES (centre of bottom row) contributes DU
3499 30/01/1999 Shades Alban Grid is blank; shaded squares contain 'DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN'; perimeter contains 'DAS RHEINGOLD', 'DIE WALKURE', 'SIEGFRIED', 'GOTTERDAMMERUNG'; RICHARD WAGNER is unclued.
3500 06/02/1999 Solvitur Ambulando Phi Grid is blank; certain lights have spaces inserted to form the river Pregel passing through K÷nigsberg, crossed by seven squares containing the letters of BRIDGES. Unclued lights are EULER, WOODY ALLEN (real name Allen K÷nigsberg), KINGS MOUNT. Clues cont
3501 13/02/1999 Click, Twiddle & Prod A8 RGG Clues contain superfluous words, whose central 1, 2 or 3 letters spell '... THE GAME OF LIFE ... YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM ... YOUR SENSE ORGANS ... THE ENERGY PROCESS', leading to three methods of entry each applied to three answers: Turn On (reverse ON), Tune
3502 20/02/1999 A Different Convention Waterloo Grid is blank; each BLOCK or BAR in lights is replaced by a black square or a bar.
3503 27/02/1999 In the Gro(o)ve Googly Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z stand for different integers, and clues are in terms of them. Asterisked clues have answers which must be altered according to 'TAKE FIVE'; unclued lights represent DAVE BRUBECK, PAUL DESMOND and JAZZ.
3504 06/03/1999 The Plays of the Bard — VI Salamanca Unclued lights form 'MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE'; eight answers have kingdoms replaced by horses, while six lose horses.
3505 13/03/1999 Scans Peeper Some squares contain two letters; unclued lights are defined by their checked letters, e.g. I _ D _ LE _ leads to I N D O LE NT.
3506 20/03/1999 Distinguished Company Lato 13 lights are associated with homophones of composers: (HANDEL) BAR, SCHINDLER'S (LISZT), CLEAR (ORFF), (LOEWE) LIFES, (PERI) MASON, (BLOCH) BUSTER, PAPER (BAX), (FRANCK) INCENSE, (BYRD) BATH, (HAYDN) SEEK, GREAT (BRITTEN), (TALLIS) MANIC, OVER (COATES).
3507 27/03/1999 Sea Change Trev Most lights are jumbled, and in some cases digits are formed from their letters; grid then reads STATISTICS PLUS PERSONAL RECORD FOR LAST YEAR ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO SENDERS OF AN SAE AT LEAST 220 X 110 MM (OVERSEAS, STAMP EXEMPT) TO J.E. GREEN, 63 GREEN LA
3508 03/04/1999 Bellringers Adam In 14 clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling OLGA, MASHA, IRENA, these being THE THREE SISTERS in the play by ANTON Chekhov. Three pairs of unclued lights form anagrams of RICHARD MASON, CHARLES MURRAY, EDGAR LINTON (characters from
3509 10/04/1999 X Marks the Spot Aragon In 23 squares a Greek letter is formed by letters within or straddling answers, and must be replaced by the lower case letter, often cross-checked by a letter of similar appearance (e.g. OMEGA is crossed by W, NU by V). The one Greek letter not to be so t
3510 17/04/1999 CP² Politicaster There are two identical grids; at each location one clue gives both answers, to be entered as cyclic permutations.
3511 24/04/1999 1 Across and 28 Across Franc 25 clues contain superfluous words, associated with the words in the International Communication Call Sign Alphabet; the corresponding letters are to be inserted to form the words which are the lights. The one letter not so treated is V (VICTOR).
3512 01/05/1999 Apprentice Piece Psyche There are 3 types of clue: normal, PD, and with subsidiary indication leading to the answer with one letter misplaced.
3513 08/05/1999 Film Show Loda Clues concern films and are presented in alphabetical order of answers; theme is FRED ASTAIRE and GINGER ROGERS, appearing in the shape of a TOP HAT and completing two isolated squares. Nine answers are significant words in the titles of their other films
3514 15/05/1999 Trivial? Le Gallois Six unclued lights are members of trios; half the answers lose every third letter on entry (perimeter spells 'IT IS AN ANCIENT MARINER AND HE STOPPETH ONE (IN) THREE' - COLERIDGE); remaining clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell OMI
3515 22/05/1999 Minute Items Emkay Grid is blank; clues lead to words from which names of chemical elements have been derived, the lights being their atomic numbers.
3516 29/05/1999 Bumps Viking Each across light is either one 9-letter word or two 5-letter words with a single-letter overlap; these are entered following the progress of boats in eight days of bumps. Central column is OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
3517 05/06/1999 Alpha-numerix II Zag Outer corners of the grid contain a numerical puzzle, linked to the central portion by SIX-GUN becoming 6GUN, OVERWEIGHT becoming OVERW8, ONE-HORSE becoming 1HORSE, LEONINE becoming LEO9; these four words are suggested by four other answers (COLT, OBESE,
3518 12/06/1999 Call My Bluff Pilcrow Each clue as given is really three clues, and there are three complete solution grids, each with perimeter containing 'WHAT I TELL YOU THREE TIMES IS TRUE' - LEWIS CARROLL; the correct one has the perimeter reading anti-clockwise, while in the other two i
3519 19/06/1999 Fair Play Cheiron Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial and final letters spell 'WHAT YOU LOSE ON THE SWINGS YOU GAIN ON THE ROUNDABOUTS' and SWINGS ENTERED AS ANAGRAMS, ROUNDABOUTS BACK TO FRONT respectively. Remaining clues are given in two groups, arranged
3520 26/06/1999 Tennis Mynot Grid is blank and represents a tennis court. Four games of mixed doubles are played; each light represents a shot, with the final letter of one the initial letter of the next in the rally. Where balls are overhit the final letters of lights are collected
3521 03/07/1999 Listener 3521 Corylus Grid is blank; when completed, the bar-pattern spells 'listener' (with the unchecked letters in the unclued first down light ICEBAG given by the letter equivalents of the number in the title).
3522 10/07/1999 Remains to be Seen Kea Initial letters of clues spell CLERIHEW DISCOVERED IN FAMOUS OXFORD MUSEUM. Each answer has one letter replaced by another on entry (in four cases the replacement is the same as the original), given by a crossing light; original letters followed by replac
3523 17/07/1999 SIOM Gioconda Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'NON SIRE, C'EST UNE GRANDE REVOLUTION'. Remaining clues occur in four groups and lead to the months of the French revolutionary calendar; the lights, whose locations are to be determined,
3524 24/07/1999 Half and Half Mr Lemon Half the clues are MP, spelling LETTER'S PLACE IN WORD; each remaining answer is encoded by advancing each letter the number of places in the alphabet given by its position in the word, e.g. MEDAL becomes NGGEQ.
3525 31/07/1999 A Game of 11 Glow-worm Six unclued lights are words from which HOP has been removed; nine clues must lose a jumble of a stone before being solved; a 'hopscotch' path from bottom row to top, using one letter from each row including one from each light with 'destoned' clue; spell
3526 07/08/1999 Teaser Merlin 20 clues are MP, spelling TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. Remaining clues have extra letters, which may be arranged to form CAT STEVENS; their answers (half of which are pairs of words) contain names for the sun, to be replaced by the letters of MOON SHADOW.
3527 14/08/1999 See you Later __________ Grid is hexagonal, with lights entered in any of six directions; in 10 hexagons, forming a path from top to bottom, lights contribute to form a TUSSOCK, to be replaced by the letters of BOGTROTTER so as to form seven bog plants reading across and one diag
3528 21/08/1999 Button Mass Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, entered with one letter removed and placed in the outermost circle, which contains EVERY RADIAL ANSWER IS A BUTTON SHORT, I.E., IT IS NOT ALL THERE. One circle contains LOOSE SCREW and LOOSE SLATE; another con
3529 28/08/1999 Bunged Up Radix Numerical puzzle; grid is hexagonal with some hexagons shaded. Each clue concerns a triangle with one vertex, indicated by a letter, being a shaded hexagon, the angle there being either 60¦ or 120¦; the length of the opposite edge is given, and the length
3530 04/09/1999 Not Much … Plausus Across clues contain misprinted, omitted or inserted letters, spelling CYNIC, WILDE; four down answers lose PRICE, RATE, WORTH, COST. In central 5 x 11 block lights are 3-, 4- or 5-letter, given hints in alphabetical order in rows according to initial let
3531 11/09/1999 Sabre’s Garden Sabre Grid represents a garden divided into four corners by one horizontal and one vertical grid line, with different methods of entry for lights beginning in each corner: normal, 'shady' (with a word meaning SUN removed), jumbled, and coded (using a substituti
3532 18/09/1999 Hot Nite (with a bit of jazz) Smokey Clues are LL, spelling 'THE JOINT IS JUMPIN'' - THOMAS WRIGHT WALLER; corner squares contain 'FATS', while unclued lights are jumbles of JOINTs.
3533 25/09/1999 Check out the Theme Schadenfreude In 11 lights the unchecked letters may be arranged to form 'OUT, DAMNED SPOT!', to be written beneath the grid; their clues contain superfluous words defining types of SPOT, jumbles of which are to be removed from 11 other answers
3534 02/10/1999 The Conclusion Rebel Grid is blank with numbers to indicate initial or final letters of lights, entered horizontally, vertically or diagonally; clues to diagonal lights contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ALL UPPER CASE. In 13 squares clashing letters may b
3535 09/10/1999 Eat Liberally Ascot Clues are given in alphabetical order; apart from those in the perimeter, symmetrically opposite lights have double clues with one of each pair MP, the misprinted letter being entered in the central row or column to form KEEP THE WOLF FROM THE DOOR.
3536 16/10/1999 What on Earth? Bufo Grid is hexagonal; lights are 7-letter, entered with central letter in numbered hexagon and remainder in surrounding six. Numbered hexagons spell GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, CO. ANTRIM, NORTHERN IRELAND; perimeter contains 'WORTH SEEING, YES; BUT NOT WORTH GOING TO
3537 23/10/1999 An Open Book Tiger Grid is blank; completed grid contains three blank squares and 'DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA' arranged as in the crest of Oxford University, to be outlined.
3538 30/10/1999 Which? BeRo 18 clues lead to homophones of the lights, whose locations are to be determined and whose initial letters spell MARIA GAETANA AGNESI, the formulator of the WITCH curve; one such curve passes through squares containing WHICH, WICH, OR WITCH, OR WYCH?, of w
3539 06/11/1999 Hwyl Leo Grid represents the national stadium at Cardiff for the final of the 1999 Rugby World Cup. There are 4 types of clues: Line-out (answer omits LINE on entry), Switch (two consecutive letters are transposed), Miss-move (answer omits central one or two lette
3540 13/11/1999 Happy Event The Tall'n Grid represents a wall with a central hole, surrounded by BERLIN WALL WAS OPENED. Clues to each row apart from top and bottom define the (overlapping) lights and indicate the whole row subsidiarily; 6- or 7-letter lights are entered around numbered square
3541 20/11/1999 Initials Noggs Lights with initial letters in TYPO, DEVIL or ANAGRAM have MP, PD or DLM clues respectively, the remainder being normal; MP clues spell 'SILLY OLD BEAR', while initial letters of DLM clues spell WINNIE THE POOH. Grid represents the map at the start of the
3542 27/11/1999 Digittallies Pie Numerical puzzle; the twenty-four 2-digit lights are the numbers from 20 to 43, and clues are in terms of them.
3543 04/12/1999 The Well-Tempered Clavier Bandmaster The rows and columns are labelled by the 24 keys (12 major and 12 minor); each contains two lights representing a prelude and a fugue, the latter being jumbled; in major keys the prelude omits the key while in minor keys the fugue does so. Clues are in pa
3544 11/12/1999 Look — No Hands! Phi Grid contains just horizontal bars; each row is to have one vertical bar inserted. Each column apart from the central one (unclued) has a double clue; of the two lights, one is jumbled and the other has a letter transferred to an upper row (containing PIA
3545 18/12/1999 An Unusual Symmetry Waterloo Grid is blank; when complete the letters, though not the bars, exhibit 180¦ symmetry.
3546 01/01/2000 Millennium Schadenfreude 21 squares, forming a large letter M, contain portions of lights which may be arranged to form MEMBER, MADAM, MAIDEN, METRE, MARRIED, MESO-, EMMA, EM, MILE, NOON, MALE, META-, MEGA, AM, MALTA, MAC, MONEY, MASS, MARK, MILLE, MEDIUM; each such square is to
3547 08/01/2000 Remorse Obiter Unclued lights are CHOPIN, RIVLIN (shoes); XEBEC, TRIREME (ships); SHELLAC, BEESWAX (sealing-wax); PE-TSAI, SAVOY(cabbages); MPRET, NEGUS (kings); GLOBAL WARMING (why the sea is boiling hot) and PIGS MIGHT FLY (whether pigs have wings). Grid contains WALR
3548 15/01/2000 Pig-in-the-middle Machiavelli 24 answers contain a pair of consecutive letters two apart in the alphabet (taken to be cyclic), to be replaced by the letter separating them, e.g. MAJLIS becomes MAKIS.
3549 22/01/2000 Why? Adam There are 4 types of clues: normal; with subsidiary indication involving an extra Y; with light formed by rearranging letters of answer less Y; and with the light formed by rearranging the letters of one word of the clue after a Y has been replaced by a c
3550 29/01/2000 Ten DIYs Kea Ten answers are not entered but form EACH THEMATIC CLUE EMPLOYS METHOD SPELLED OUT IN CONCLUSION AMONG REMAINING ONES; final letters of other clues spell 'THERE IS A DIVINITY THAT SHAPES OUR ENDS'. Rearranging final letters of words in thematic clues lead
3551 05/02/2000 Give and Take Poat 15 across answers lose, and 15 down answers gain, the letters of BIRTHDAY PRESENT on entry; remaining clues are DLM with extra letters in letter-mixtures, spelling GENETHLIACON; unclued lights are XENIUM, POTLACH, DEODATE, CADEAU.
3552 12/02/2000 Edgewise Loda Across answers are entered with one letter in the row above; reading upwards these spell THE ADVANTAGE (in left side) OVER ME AND YOU (in right side). Down answers are entered with one letter moved upwards; clues either contain or have subsidiary indicati
3553 19/02/2000 Latent Hints Peeper 20 letters in the grid are ignored in subsidiary indications, spelling MEND, BAT, FLARE, LASH, MEAN, which hint at the perimeter, containing A STITC(H IN T)IME, SAC(HIN T)ENDULKAR, FLAS(H IN T)HE PAN, PITC(H INT)O, WIT(H INT)ENT.
3554 26/02/2000 Preamble Only Piccadilly Numerical puzzle with no clues; all information required to solve it, such as the fact that all lights are palindromes, is contained in the preamble. Main diagonal contains 3122151251919, i.e., CLUELESS.
3555 04/03/2000 Crash Landing Mespot Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling CARNIVAL, FASTNACHT, MARDI GRAS, SHROVE TUESDAY. Five clues without definition lead to BLINIS, OMELETTE, TACO, FLAPJACK, CREPES, entered with first half upwards and second half downwards next
3556 11/03/2000 Singular Characters MynoT Clues are given in alphabetical order of reversals of answers; 12 squares contain portions of answers which unite to form names of symbols, entered as such, e.g. the final square of both POLYP and SOLUS contains +.
3557 18/03/2000 What’s the Title? Alban All lights are French; down lights are jumbled. The title LES MOTS CROIS+S appears in 14 lettered squares.
3558 25/03/2000 Carte Blanche Alphabetical Jigsaw Corylus Grid is blank, to be completed Times-style; clues are in both alphabetical and numerical order of lights, with begin with the 26 letters of the alphabet.
3559 01/04/2000 Playfair Dolos Preamble contains seven sentences, each in fact a clue to one of the 'unclued' lights; central row consists of unchecked letters forming APRIL FOOL'S DAY (anagram of title and setter).
3560 08/04/2000 Trainspotter Dimitry Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling GRYF-POTTER-FINDOR, SLYTHERIN, RAVENCLAW, HUFFLEPUFF; unclued lights down are all trains, including HOGWARTS EXPRESS from platform 9+ (which grid number is therefore to be entered).
3561 15/04/2000 I’m Still Around Apex Each answer loses two letters on entry, spelling WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LETTERS LATENT AS AN ELEGANT DEVICE FOR HIDING MESSAGES? - DIMITRY.
3562 22/04/2000 A Literary Production Syd Lexis Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'VARIETY'S THE VERY SPICE OF LIFE, THAT GIVES IT ALL ITS FLAVOUR'. Nine clues, whose initial letters spell POTPOURRI (to be written beneath the grid), either define two words of which one l
3563 29/04/2000 — BACK Qadi Grid has all squares numbered except for some blacked out; lights are entered letter by letter. Completed grid initially contains NOW STRIKE THIS TEXT AND IN PLACE GET PART OF POEM DEFINED BY LAST FIFTEEN MIXED SYMBOLS; THESE ARE IN CODE AND THE ANSWERS I KEY: Macflekno
3564 06/05/2000 Punch Line Mr Lemon Grid appears inside a boiled egg with top removed; clues are purely definitions given in alphabetical order of lights. The key is the phrase 'PARTS OF IT ARE EXCELLENT', taken from the Punch cartoon introducing the phrase 'curate's egg'; each light may be
3565 13/05/2000 Dressing Down Radix In eight clues Z has been replaced by another letter, spelling 'KING LEAR'; in four others it has been removed. Each row or column has a pair of clues in no particular order; two 4-letter lights in each corner are Playfair-coded, forming other words. The
3566 20/05/2000 Plays of the Bard — VII Salamanca Top row contains 'OUT ON YOU OWLS'; nine answers lose jumbles of OWL on entry. Top of first and bottom of last column contain 'OFF WITH HIS HEAD'; other unclued lights are men's names without an initial letter G.
3567 27/05/2000 Special Agents’ Cipher Aedites Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z stand for the primes from 2 to 101 in some order, and clues are the expressions for the lights as products of them. Answers are enciphered using an additive 7-digit key using arithmetic modulo 10 in each pos
3568 03/06/2000 Clotted Cream Samson Each down light is given two clues, one genuine and one leading to a bogus answer; alternate letters of the latter spell 'THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE' - WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT, ARTHUR SEYMOUR SULLIVAN. All across lights are unclued; four of them form 'THEY
3569 10/06/2000 Frankly, Mr _____ly, ____ is Murder Meursault Unclued lights 'A SUMMER IN SKYE', 'BEDSIDE JUMPING', 'THE FROG PRINCE', 'THE DEVIL'S WALTZ' are titles of works by authors with surname SMITH. Main diagonal and two adjacent squares, indicated by a dotted line, contains a jumble of INEXTINGUISHABLE, sugg
3570 17/06/2000 Mission Pilcrow One clue in each row and column has subsidiary indication involving an extra letter; those from across clues spell 'FIND LIVINGSTONE', said by JAMES GORDON BENNETT JUNIOR to HENRY MORTON STANLEY; the name appears in a diagonal and must be shaded. Extra le
3571 24/06/2000 Misery Sabre Each answer is entered with two misprints; the first spell SABRE 'HAS LOVELY MOMENTS BUT AWFUL QUARTERS OF AN HOUR' and the second SABRE 'A DE BEAUX MOMENTS, MAIS DE MAUVAIS QUART D'HEURES'.
3572 01/07/2000 Balance Mass 28 answers gain or lose a word or abbreviation for a coin or currency; subsidiary indications in remaining clues involve extra letters, spelling DRAWINGS (Across) and DEPOSITS (Down).
3573 08/07/2000 3/4 Monk 3 Down and 4 Across, clued without definition, are PARTIAL JUMBLING; other clues are MP, spelling THE REQUIRED AUTHOR IS WILFRED THESIGER. Rearranging the letters in each row of the south-east quarter of the grid yields CLEAR THIS AREA AS PER MAPS IN 'ARA
3574 15/07/2000 Old Sixpence Mordred Grid is blank with starting squares of lights indicated; central row, unclued, contains 'METAMORPHOSES' (title is a clue to OVID), while 12 answers are names of those who were transformed, the lights being their changed forms, e.g. PROCNE becomes SWALLOW.
3575 22/07/2000 Home and Away Nibor Grid is blank; lights are paired together in numerical order, and given double clues which comprise two definitions together with an anagram of the lights combined. Top row contains INDOOR and ABROAD.
3576 29/07/2000 The 48 Dimitry Each of the 48 answers is entered as a Prelude (the initial letter) and Fugue; the subject of the latter is the remainder, and the Fugue is formed by adding it to itself repeatedly with successive shifts. Central column contains JOHANN S. BACH and central
3577 05/08/2000 5d Auctor Eight across lights are pairs of overlapped words, e.g. DETERMINERALS; their clues consist of two definitions and a subsidiary indication to the whole. Remaining lights are clued in pairs with their mirror-images in the vertical axis; across lights have d
3578 12/08/2000 Turnip and Beans Phi Each subsidiary indication ignores three consecutive letters, one of which is to be omitted, spelling STRAWBERRY TOMATO, KIWI FRUIT, CARAMBOLA; unclued lights are CAPE, CHINESE, COROMANDEL (types of gooseberries).
3579 19/08/2000 Quantum Theory Verbascum Clues are MP, spelling 'WHEN I PLAY WITH MY CAT, WHO KNOWS WHETHER SHE ISN'T ...'. Answers containing double letters have one excluded, spelling ALBERT EINSTEIN, author of perimeter quotation 'JEDENFALLS BIN ICH _BERZEUGT, DASS DER NICHT W_RFELT'; remaini
3580 26/08/2000 FxOxG ITR+ Numerical puzzle; the letters of EIGHTY-FOUR stand for the digits 0123456789. There are 3 types of clue: normal, with letters in answers replaced by digits; products, e.g. HxHxH leads to 3 x 3 x 3 = 27; words with missing letters represented by x, whose n
3581 02/09/2000 Ze Sekond Fon Freaks Puzl BeRo Five phases of spelling reform, the first given and the remainder to be discovered, are progressively introduced: hard C to K and soft C to S, PH to F, double letters written singly, final silent E omitted, and TH to Z. The grid is divided by dotted lines
3582 09/09/2000 25 Across MynoT 21 squares are ignored in subsidiary indications; they contain EEFF EFEDCB in top half of grid and GFECFDGFEDC in bottom, positioned as the notes on the stave, forming the first part of the tune of 'RULE BRITANNIA'.
3583 16/09/2000 The Five Ks Charybdis Clued lights are jumbled; ten others, taken in three pairs and a foursome, form anagrams of ingredients of cocktails SCREWDRIVER, DAIQUIRI, SIDECAR, MANHATTAN, arranged to form a cocktail glass. The fifth cocktail TOM COLLINS appears in lettered squares,
3584 23/09/2000 Take Five Tea Leaves Grid is blank; lights, whose starting squares are indicated, are entered in any of 8 directions, and reflect at edges back along the original path with the later letters replacing the earlier ones. Perimeter (read anticlockwise) contains LOCATE A SIX BY F
3585 30/09/2000 Tiger Hunt Bufo There are two identical grids; letters are divided into two groups (those with a closed loop and those without) and each light is split between the grids accordingly. Each answer loses a letter on entry, ignored in the subsidiary indication, spelling LEAG
3586 07/10/2000 Circumnavigation Gioconda 17 squares contain portions of lights which contribute to names of stations on the Circle Line, appropriately located, to be entered as their initial letters.
3587 14/10/2000 IEEOO IOA Grid is blank; the 25 answers begin with different letters (X not being used). Only vowels are entered; clues are given in alphabetical order of lights.
3588 21/10/2000 Franc Spots the Join Franc Grid is blank; lights, whose starting squares are indicated, are entered in any of 4 directions. Ten squares contain portions of lights which contribute to names of cities in California, to be represented by dots; the vertical line between fourth and fift
3589 28/10/2000 Ex Dividend Ricshaw Clues are MP, with misprints and correct letters spelling IT'S FIVE HUNDRED AFTER START OF SERIES INSIDE 'THE TIMES' and 'UNDERSTANDING IN THINE HEART WHICH SHALL NOT BE PUT OUT' respectively; the first leads cryptically to ESDRAS (contained in a 3 x 2 bl
3590 04/11/2000 Here and Now Ix Clues are to be taken in pairs, with one in each pair being LL, spelling TIMES LISTENER CROSSWORD, the other answer having the letter concerned inserted to form the light.
3591 11/11/2000 Wotcher Mate Lato 11 misprinted definitions, with misprinted letters spelling TEAM CHANGES, lead to lights which are anagrams of football teams; FOSTER (from Nottingham FOREST) and COTTONS (from NOTTS CO.) are to be shaded.
3592 18/11/2000 One Hit Wonder Ploutos Clues are MP, spelling 'FORGET IT, LOUIS, NO CIVIL WAR PICTURE EVER MADE A NICKEL'. Sixteen across lights are formed from the answers by removing a letter and rearranging the remainder; the letters removed spell MARGARET MITCHELL and two of the lights are
3593 25/11/2000 Rec Dec Tangent Numerical puzzle; the letters a, b, c, ..., z stand for the numbers from 1 to 26, and clues are in terms of them. Lights are formed from recurring decimals by removing decimal points and giving repetends once only.
3594 02/12/2000 Kenweed Schadenfreude Subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling 'THE START, MIDDLE AND END NEED NOT BE IN THAT ORDER'; 25 answers are film titles, treated appropriately to form the lights, e.g. GREMLINS becomes SLINGREM, SITTING PRETTY becomes SITTINETTYGPR.
3595 09/12/2000 DIY Christmas Card Loda Grid is blank; some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell BLOCK IN O FOR ROBIN'S RED EYE; remaining lights include blank squares, which when joined by lines form a robin. MERRY CHRISTMAS appears in two rows and is to be written in r
3596 16/12/2000 He and She Plausus Grid is almost blank, with rows and columns labelled by letters and numbers respectively; lights are entered letter by letter, some in upper case and some in lower. Most rows contain letters ignored in subsidiary indications, forming most of 'plath/HUGHES KEY: Of the mind
3597 23/12/2000 Barbershop Quartet Psyche 19 clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell the quartet TILL, RAZOR, SOAP, MIRROR; clues are LL, spelling the links REFLECTOR, EASTENDERS, ENTIA NON SUNT MULTIPLICANDA, EULENSPIEGEL; perimeter lights are SIR ISAAC NEWTON, BARBARA WINDS
3598 30/12/2000 The Rest? Viking 6 clues are single words in capitals; replacing the letters A, B, C, ..., Z by 1 followed by the primes from 2 to 97 and forming products gives the years of the battles NASEBY, NILE, OUDENARDE, PAVIA, FLODDEN, TRAFALGAR, which are the lights. Other clue
3599 06/01/2001 On Tap Smokey Across clues are LL, spelling TRADITIONAL PANTOMIME; subsidiary indications in down clues involve extra letters, spelling MUG, POPULAR, PHARMACIST, suggesting PUSS IN BOOTS, appearing at 1 Across as BO-PUSS-OTS; other unclued lights are LACE-CHAT-UPS, COT
3600 13/01/2001 Cover Story Glow-Worm Top and bottom rows contain ARTHUR C. CLARKE and 'A SPACE ODYSSEY'; squares containing clashes or unchecked A or O (not in the perimeter) are to be filled with BLACK HOLES, forming 2001. Taking alternate initial and final letters of clues, and rearranging
3601 20/01/2001 Congratulations Syd Lexis Clues are given in alphabetical order of lights and contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ''WHAT DO YOU READ, MY LORD?' 'WORDS, WORDS, WORDS'' - 'HAMLET', W. SHAKESPEARE (the play having been completed c. 1601); central three rows of grid
3602 27/01/2001 19 Across 54 Across Machiavelli Each of 26 lights can be augmented in both second and penultimate positions, in each case by a different letter of the alphabet; each clue contains a definition of its light, but belongs as a whole to the augmented version of another light.
3603 03/02/2001 Aleatoric? Arcturus Six squares along SW-NE diagonal contain sequences of the form _OR_; making one choice leads to THE TRAP - ERASE read from SW to NE; the correct choice gives ENTRY PERFECT read from NE to SW.
3604 10/02/2001 Inigo Obiter Unclued lights (and corner squares read clockwise) are Italian composers less a final -INI, together with words from the titles of their works: CHERUB(INI) - WATER CARRIER; PAGAN(INI) - CAPRICE; TART(INI) - DEVIL'S TRILL; BELL(INI) - NORMA; ROSS(INI) - BA
3605 17/02/2001 Kid’s Stuff Radix Grid comprises six 6 x 6 squares, with the first three presented above the second three; across lights in the first four rows of both top half and bottom half are clued in random order. Down lights are all jumbled, with two in each square, a boy's name an
3606 24/02/2001 The Königsberg Bridges Oyler Numerical puzzle; the letters appearing in the title and setter stand for the first 12 palindromic primes (including single-digit primes) in some order, and across clues are in terms of them; four of the rows have cyclic entry from starting positions to b
3607 03/03/2001 Biblical Advice The Tall'n Alternate numbered clues contain superfluous letters, spelling MATTHEW NINETEEN THIRTY, which text reads 'But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first'. Answers to unnumbered clues have initial letter moved to the end (except for the
3608 10/03/2001 To the Shaded Squares Apex Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'FOR SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL'; each across answer loses a letter on entry and each down answer gains one, spelling 'I BRING FRESH SHOWERS' and 'MY NAME I
3609 17/03/2001 Summer Vacation the Irishman Grid is a map of Ireland; one unclued light is SNAKE FLEES THIS PLANT, suggesting other unclued lights SHAMROCK and FIELD M(ADDER), (VIPER)'S GRASS, (ADDER)'S TONGUE, BL(ADDER) SENNA, JACOB'S L(ADDER), (VIPER)'S BUGLOSS, BL(ADDER)WORT. Several other light
3610 24/03/2001 A Change of Title Adam Subsidiary indications either ignore letters or involve extra letters, spelling 'TROILUS AND CRISEYDE' (Across) and 'LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN' (Down). Placing one above the other gives substitutions used to encode perimeter answers.
3611 31/03/2001 Mini Jumbo Waterloo Many answers are too long to fit in the grid; they are divided into sections of equal length (between 2 and 5 letters long), which are then encoded by single letters, the encoding being consistent for sections of each length.
3612 07/04/2001 Goo Goo G’Joob Franc Twelve across clues contain superfluous words, which are synonyms of either DOT or DASH; correctly grouped they spell MORSE in Morse Code; eighteen down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE (Morse). Perimeter c
3613 14/04/2001 15 Down Mass Twelve unclued lights including the title are THE-SNAKE-GRASS, S-SEPS-TOOLPIGEON, N-COTTONMOUTH-ARK, PO-MAMBA-T, MARYJA-KRAIT-NE, HE-VIPER-MP, D-ASP-HURRA, SP-BUSHMASTER-ELT, EM-DEATHADDER-MER, STA-BOA-RR, T-CROTALUS-USSOCK, ESPART-ANACONDA-O. 21 lights a
3614 21/04/2001 Private Opinion Morix Clues contain superfluous words; the initial letter of the answer is entered where indicated, the remainder elsewhere, with the initial letter of the superfluous word occurring at the end of the light. Perimeter contains 'BLESS 'EM ALL! BLESS 'EM ALL! THE
3615 28/04/2001 Conservation Verbascum Clues are in two groups, 'Endangered Species' and 'Nature Notes'. The former are DLM with misprinted definitions, the correct letters spelling HARPER LEE; their lights are 4-letter and satisfy the completion of the perimeter quotation 'THERE ARE THREE CLA
3616 05/05/2001 Sin Monk Down lights are jumbled; first eight squares on main diagonal contain portions of lights which contribute to seven numbers and POINT, so that main diagonal contains 1.414214FEET. Taking grid as a SCALE DRAWING and using the PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM (all formed
3617 12/05/2001 Football Pilcrow Grid represents the surface of a football, comprising 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, each with two lights surrounding it. Subsidiary indications in pentagon clues involve extra letters, spelling CARBON FORM WITH SIXTY ATOMS; one of each pair of hexagon clu
3618 19/05/2001 What’s This? Corylus Grid is blank, with clues given in normal order; the bar-pattern spells 'crossword' in lower case, with 'cross' and 'word' reading diagonally and crossing at 'o'.
3619 26/05/2001 Quisling Pie Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z (excluding I, O and X) stand for the numbers from 3 to 25 in some order, and clues are in terms of them.
3620 02/06/2001 Oh No! Not Another Maths One Mordred Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial and final letters spell 'MULTIPLICATION IS VE(X)ATION, DIVISION IS AS BAD; THE RULE OF THREE DOTH PUZZLE ME, AND PRACTICE DRIVES ME MAD'. In 11 answers ERROR, CHRIST, CHI, CROSS, TEN, KISS, BY, EX, TIMES are
3621 09/06/2001 Buzz Words Aragon 7 down clues contain superfluous words defining the unclued across lights 'VEXT CWM FLY JABS KURD QOPH - ZING!'; the letters above these in the grid are all different (including the unclued central row DESCRAMBLING), and determine a cipher employed for th
3622 16/06/2001 Nearly All Change BeRo Down answers are altered by moving each letter one place backward in the alphabet for each straight line comprising the letter and one place forward for each curvy part. Across answers INBENT and SPIRAL (whose clues are similarly altered), and down answer KEY: Straight minus curvy plus
3623 23/06/2001 Times Mr Lemon All letters of answers are squared on entry, e.g. PYRE becomes VALY; unclued lights are squared forms of FOUR, NINE, SIXTEEN, HUNDRED, BERKELEY, LEICESTER, GROSVENOR, BELGRAVE, while central 2 x 2 square contains squared form of SOHO.
3624 30/06/2001 Symphonie Bathetique Elgin Grid has no numbers and only some bars; the bars to be inserted form steps down the main diagonal. Four asterisked clues lead to FIFE, VINA, OBOE, LYRE which must be Playfair-coded. Initial letters of the 18 normal clues spell GRID HAS SEVEN BLANKS; origi KEY: The Music Box
3625 07/07/2001 Identifiers Bufo Grid is blank, with each row and column labelled by a pair of letters from AB to YZ; thus letter-pairs identify squares (the row-letter being given first). Clues are given in alphabetical order of light, and each contains one or more superfluous words lea
3626 14/07/2001 The Third Degree Schadenfreude Clues are MP, spelling 'NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH IN(Q)UISITION'; the missing Q is entered in the isolated central square. Perimeter contains JONATHAN CROWTHER, DERRICK MACNUTT, EDWARD POWYS MATHERS; unclued lights are jumbles of AZED, XIMENES, TORQUEMAD
3627 21/07/2001 The Plays of the Bard VIII Salamanca The answers to six clues without definition are ARTHUR, ELINOR, BLANCH, GURNEY, PHILIP, HUBERT; they are to be Playfair-coded. One light is LOOKING, suggesting the play 'King John'. KEY: Faulconbridge
3628 28/07/2001 My Fair Lady Samson Grid consists of 25 squares containing numbers each surrounded by eight squares; each numbered square has two clues. A jumble of a girl's name straddling the two answers is to be removed to form the 8-letter light, to be entered clockwise or anticlockwise
3629 04/08/2001 Don’t Panic! Tea Leaves Grid is blank; each clue contains one or more superfluous words leading to the grid number. Unclued light is THIRD LETTERS; taking third letters of clues spells 'GREAT QUESTION OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING', the answer to which is FORTY-TWO (to be
3630 11/08/2001 Vintage Stuff Phi Most lights are jumbled; unclued central column is BOTRYTIS CINEREA, also known as NOBLE ROT, which appears across along with CATAWBA, CABERNET, SYRAH, PINOT, MALMSEY, MUSCAT, SEMILLON, SYYVANER, VERDELHO, SCUPPERNONG, GAMAY. Clues to lights entered norma
3631 18/08/2001 A Message Peeper Perimeter lights, clued only by definition, each have one unchecked letter, for which there are two possibilities. Upper half of grid has 20 letters A forming a large A; the same formation in lower half contains THE UNCHES ARE SPORADIC, determining which
3632 25/08/2001 Pyramid Polymath Numerical puzzle concerning the building of a square pyramid.
3633 01/09/2001 Take Turns MynoT Grid is blank; clues are given in usual order as regards initial direction of lights, but at each L or R lights turn left or right.
3634 08/09/2001 Round 10 Loda Grid is blank; clues are given in usual order. In 10 squares portions of lights contribute to SUN, MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE, PLUTO, with the planets in the correct order of distance from the sun; GIOTTO is unclued.
3635 15/09/2001 Gas or Taking the Mike Henry Across clues are given in reverse order. All clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell D'OYLY CARTE, SAVOY THEATRE, GLKHB-GFIEB, MIKE LEIGH; the decoded film title (using A = Z, B = Y etc.) is TOPSY-TURVY, to be written beneath the grid
3636 22/09/2001 Centrefold Gioconda Clues are MP, spelling THE MIDDLE TO THE END OR THE END TO THE MIDDLE, indicating how answers are to be entered, e.g. FLOSSING becomes SFLOINGS, ADAMANTINE becomes DAMAAENTIN.
3637 29/09/2001 Chain Sabre Unclued lights CUDDY, CHUM, CULLYISM, TEREDO, ABSINTHE, LIGNITE, CRUVE, BASALT, LABRID define links in an endless chain of 8-letter words with 4-letter overlaps: COOK-ROOM-MATE-SHIP-WORM-WOOD-COAL-FISH-TRAP-ROCK-COOK.
3638 06/10/2001 Power Housemen Tiburon Grid is blank; lights, whose starting squares are indicated, are entered in any of 4 directions. In 37 squares portions of lights contribute to form names of American Presidents, to be entered as their initial letters; THE WHITE HOUSE appears at the centr
3639 13/10/2001 Psycho Killer? Charybdis 18 clues lack definitions; their answers each lose one letter to form new words (whose positions are to be determined), spelling BARMECIDE, SCHACABAC. These two are protagonists in an Arabian Nights tale, which is mirrored by having unclued lights change
3640 20/10/2001 On the Town Piccadilly Four double clues lead to pairs of 4-letter lights, whose letters may be arranged to form an 8-letter word (ABSINTHE, VERMOUTH, BURGUNDY, PILSENER) which is to be Playfair-coded on entry elsewhere; the unclued light HANGOVER is also Playfair-coded. KEY: Pub-crawling
3641 27/10/2001 Trick or Treat? Dimitry There are two types of clue. In 'treat' clues definitions have been interchanged in pairs; taking the differences between the grid numbers concerned and converting to letters (using A = 1, B = 2 etc.) yields the letters of JACK O-LANTERN. 'Trick' clues co
3642 03/11/2001 Which Way Up? His Nibs Grid contains 25 isolated squares each surrounded by eight squares; each of 25 clues is labelled with a different letter, appearing in the 9-letter answer and entered in one of the isolated squares with the remaining letters surrounding it in order, eithe
3643 10/11/2001 Requiem Bandmaster Across clues are given in pairs; the first answer ends with a creature and the second begins with another, the two being replaced by their cross to form the light, e.g. YAKETY-YAK, COWARDS become YAKETY-ZHO-ARDS. Unclued across lights are COQUELICOT, PAPA
3644 17/11/2001 Chapter and Verse Charabanc Nine answers each have one letter falling outside the grid; these can be arranged to form 'ADLESTROP', written by EDWARD THOMAS (top row). Twelve clues have missing letters; these can be arranged to form ROBERT FROST.
3645 24/11/2001 Plus ça Change Kea Puzzle concerns the line 'A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu' from the poem 'Voyelles' by Rimbaud. Half the clues in each direction are normal; each such answer is associated with one of the five colours, and its vowels (all of which are the same) a
3646 01/12/2001 What’s This? Pabulum Subsidiary indications in most clues involve extra letters, spelling 'THIS IS THE FAMOUS STONE ...' - GEORGE HERBERT (the quotation continues '... that turneth all to gold'). Five lights are Playfair-coded; the grid contains four stones, of which the one KEY: Alchemy works
3647 08/12/2001 Stars Franc Grid is blank, with arrows to denote starting squares of lights and dotted lines outlining a star; letters in squares crossed by the outline spell 'BEING A STAR HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME ...'. Clues are LL, spelling '... TO GET INSULTED IN PLACES WHERE
3648 15/12/2001 Undercover Activities Glow-worm Puzzle is based on HEADINGS of ENDPAPERS in Chambers', appearing in perimeter of grid as MODEL OF DICTIONARY LAYOUT and DETAILED CHART OF PRONUNCIATION. The former has the sample entry DANSE MACABRE, leading to unclued lights SEDAN, ANDES, DEANS, DANES. T
3649 22/12/2001 Forgive and Forget Ploutos Across answers are entered using FORAY, FORBYE, FORCES, FOR¦AT, FORDO, FOREL, FORFAR, FORGIVE & FORGET, FORHOW, FORINT, FORJESKIT, FORKED, FORLESE, FORME, FORNIX, FORPIT, FORRAD, FORSAY, FORTH, FORUM, FORWHY, FORZATO.
3650 29/12/2001 Easy? Viking Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell RATIO OF CIRCUMFERENCE TO DIAMETER OF CIRCLE. Subsidiary indications in asterisked clues lead to misprinted forms; shading correct letters in grid forms a lower case PI, while misprints may be a
3651 05/01/2002 A Recurrent Puzzle Aldhelm Grid has left and right halves separated by an isolated central column; across clues are LL, with the same letter omitted in both halves of each row and entered in the central column, spelling AESOP'S 'FABLES'. Down clues contain superfluous words, whose
3652 12/01/2002 SDT Uptodate Numerical puzzle concerning 'Single Digit Totals' (remainders modulo 9) of lights, wherein the numbers from 1 to 25 are to be entered in squares, as given by letter equivalents.
3653 19/01/2002 General Post Ix Clues are to be taken in fours; each set of four consists of two MP clues with jumbled lights, one LL clue and one with a superfluous word. The initial letter of the superfluous word is that omitted in the LL clue, and is to replace two consecutive letter
3654 26/01/2002 Royal Flush Merlin Grid is blank with abbreviations for English kings or queens in some squares. Clues are normal or DLM, and each relates to a monarch, determining the starting square of the light (one relates to Cromwell and the location of its light, LORD PROTECTOR, must
3655 02/02/2002 Linear G___ Aragon The 27 Underground stations on the Jubilee Line are assigned letters of the alphabet from A to Z in order from Stanmore to Stratford, with D doubling for Kingsbury and Wembley Park; all but two of them (usually jumbled) appear in clues and must be replace
3656 09/02/2002 In the Round 149 Grid is circular with jumbled 6-letter radial lights. Outermost circle contains 'PERICLES' - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; second, third and fourth contain THALIARD, DIANA, PHILEMON, BOULT, DIONYZA, THAISA, MARINA, LEONINE; innermost circle contains 'I TELL YOU WH
3657 16/02/2002 To _________ Apex Each answer loses two letters on entry, spelling 'AGE CANNOT WITHER THEM, NOR CUSTOM STALE THEIR INFINITE VARIETIES' - DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS. Lettered squares in grid contain OUR CROSSWORD SETTERS.
3658 23/02/2002 Polygons Galore Dave Numerical puzzle; the different letters of the title correspond to the numbers from 1 to 10 in some order. Each row and column of the grid corresponds to a different 'order' of polygonal numbers (triangular, square, pentagonal, etc.) from 3 to 12, and in
3659 02/03/2002 Four Star Adam Four pairs of lights are anagrams of Shakespearean lovers, crossing at a square surrounded by a star (thus being 'A pair of star-crossed lovers').
3660 09/03/2002 Mistake Quinapalus Clues are MP, spelling FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS FOUND IN TOP, MIDDLE AND BOTTOM ROWS; these read SHADE IN SQUARES WHERE LIGHTS DISAGREE; doing so forms the words RED INK, indicating what is to be used to complete the grid.
3661 16/03/2002 Close-up Monk Column just left of central line contains ORIGAMI PAPER (unclued); grid is to be folded along the centre of this column, leaving only the rightmost column uncovered, containing STAYS VISIBLE (unclued). Four down answers are FURBELOWING, LONDON UNDERGROUND
3662 23/03/2002 Window Dressing Llig Lights wholly or partly contained in the central 7 x 9 rectangle (outlined) are jumbled, so that it reads 'MACHT DOCH DEN ZWEITEN FENSTERLADEN AUCH AUF, DAMIT MEHR LICHT HEREINKOMME', the last words of GOETHE, to be written beneath the grid.
3663 30/03/2002 The Missing Saint Aedites An encryption scheme is obtained by writing the codeword followed by the remainder of the alphabet in order; lights are encoded, those across by replacing each letter by that one place after it in the sequence and those down by replacing each letter by th KEY: Hydropneumatic
3664 06/04/2002 Truants Machiavelli 25 lights are formed by removing first names, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, from longer words; clues define both words. The letter not used to begin a first name (Y) is entered in the central isolated square.
3665 13/04/2002 The Well-Tempered Clavier Nibor Each row represents one of the twelve keys, and contains two lights; a letter is transferred from one to the other, spelling PRELUDE, FUGUE; each across light is 'transposed' from the key of C to the key for the row by advancing each letter between 0 and
3666 20/04/2002 Pseudantonyms Obiter In each clue a word or phrase has been replaced by either an antonym or a word appearing to be an antonym (e.g. 'profusion' for 'confusion'). Ten unclued lights are similar false antonyms which are not words: FRONTGAMMON, SHORTITUDE, WHITEMAIL, COLD PLATE
3667 27/04/2002 Exact Hit The Tall'n 1 Across and 1 Down are PERFECT PANGRAM; most clues have extra letters, spelling THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG. Seven down lights clued only by definition form FLY Q-SHIP ZAG VEXT DRUNK CWM JOB; six across lights similarly clued (except the la
3668 04/05/2002 One Down Amicus Grid is almost divided in two by the central horizontal line; the two halves are identical. 1 Down (unclued) is THE BORROWERS. Clues are double, separated by superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'AFIELD, AFLOAT, ALOFT' (the words following 'The
3669 11/05/2002 Dab Leo Ten answers lose 'bad backs' on entry, e.g. HACKBUTS becomes HUTS. Central column contains SLIPPED DISCS; remaining across answers lose O on entry. Unclued across lights are LUMBAG(O), SC(O)LI(O)SIS, KYPH(O)SIS, P(O)STURE.
3670 18/05/2002 French Note Ark Puzzle concerns 'LA RONDE'; in seven answers a consecutive pair of letters from the title (treated cyclically) is to be replaced by the next pair (sharing a common letter), e.g. CLAVER becomes CARVER; the seven letters which remain but gain a new partner
3671 25/05/2002 Euler’s Spoilers Oyler Numerical puzzle; grid is blank, with rows and columns labelled by letters to give co-ordinates. Each square is to contain a number from 00 to 99 so as to form a double Latin square (with the two squares formed by taking first digits and second digits of
3672 01/06/2002 Hit Your Brass! Oz Grid is circular with radial 5-letter lights, half being jumbled; third circle contains 'AT THE ROUND EARTH'S IMAGINED CORNERS, BLOW YOUR TRUMPETS' from 'HOLY SONNETS FOUR' by JOHN DONNE (fifth circle); first circle contains PUNCH/CORNETS, APPEL/SENNETS,
3673 08/06/2002 Journey Gioconda In 18 square portions of lights contribute to names of places visited by CHRISTIAN (to be entered in central 3 x 3 square, including five isolated squares) in 'The Pilgrim's Progress'.
3674 15/06/2002 1886 and All That Duck Four down clues lack definitions; their lights (BRONTE, CONRAD, AUSTEN, MILTON) must be Playfair-coded. Remaining down clues are MP or contain extra letters, spelling THE BERNE CONVENTION (to be written beneath the grid). 22 squares are left blank and mus KEY: Uncopyrightable
3675 22/06/2002 Tailor Schadenfreude Some clues contain words which must be replaced by anagrams before solving; initial letters of correct words spell 'FISH ARE JUMPIN' ... THE COTTON IS HIGH'. Remaining clues lack definitions, and lead to either fish (which must jump to another location) o
3676 29/06/2002 Ave Atque Vale Dimitry Puzzle commemorates Mike Rich (born 29/06/1940); clues are MP, spelling IN MEMORY OF M.C.C. RICH, LISTENER CROSSWORD CO-EDITOR. Subsidiary indications in some clues ignore one or two letters, spelling IN MEMORIAM PLOUTOS, to be written in the row beneath
3677 06/07/2002 The Garden of Delights Dipper Six answers are split in half with the second half entered elsewhere; four have their last two or three letters removed and inserted elsewhere in COIR, LOAM, PEAT or MOSS; six have lost one or two interior letters (spelling an arrangement of ORANGE-TIP);
3678 13/07/2002 Hard Going Bufo Thirteen squares (including the isolated central one) each must contain three letters; these can be arranged to form 'IN ..., 'EREFORD AND 'AMPSHIRE, 'URRICANES 'ARDLY 'APPEN'. The missing word is 'ERTFORD; five unclued lights are towns in Hertfordshire l
3679 20/07/2002 Author Sabre Subsidiary indications in 15 across clues involve extra letters, spelling 'THE VALLEY OF FEAR'; 15 down clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'NAPOLEON OF CRIME'; unclued lights are TREATISE and BINOMIAL THEOREM. The other work know
3680 27/07/2002 Going into Reverse Waterloo All answers reverse at least once on entry, e.g. SELFLESS becomes SSELF, MINIMUM becomes UMIN.
3681 03/08/2002 Master of Spin Merlin Answers are misprinted on entry; taking the misprints and correct letters (in either order) in pairs spells PAUL DIRAC - 'IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE BEAUTY IN ONE'S EQUATIONS THAN TO HAVE THEM FIT EXPERIMENT'. Unclued lights are DIOPHA-ADONIS-INE and SC
3682 10/08/2002 Play Around Colleague In 18 squares portions of lights contribute to form ALCATRAS (an albatross), ERNE, HARPY, LECTERN (eagles), SPARROW, LINNET, FINCH, THRUSH, TAHA, ROBIN, WREN (birdies), EQUAL, LEVEL, SALMON (pars), GOBLIN, TRUCK, COLONEL (bogeys), NIS/NIS (double bogey),
3683 17/08/2002 Point to Point Samson Grid is blank, with an external row and column above and to the left of the grid; lights are entered running from each row and column to the next as required, and many squares contain two letters. In each row and column one letter is removed from a light
3684 24/08/2002 D Alban All answers are German words, almost all being in Chambers' (mainly in etymologies); down lights are jumbled.
3685 31/08/2002 Pentad Tangent Numerical puzzle concerning the placement of the twelve pentominoes in an 8 x 8 square with a central 2 x 3 hole. The letters a, b, c, ..., i stand for the fifth powers from 1 to 59049 and clues are in terms of them; digits of lights must be entered in
3686 07/09/2002 Act Mr Lemon Unclued lights form 'GIVE US BACK OUR ELEVEN DAYS' (referring to the 'period' between 02/09/1752 and 14/09/1752); 16 answers gain one or two letters D on entry (forming new words), while subidiary indications in remaining clues involve extra letters, spel
3687 14/09/2002 Sevens MynoT All lights are 7-letter, with HEPTADS unclued; clues are given in alphabetical order of light, and have letters misprinted as A, D, L or R to assist with the placing of lights.
3688 21/09/2002 Teamwork Lato Unclued lights are OLYMPIC GAMES and PENRITH LAKES, celebrating the gold medals won by Great Britain's coxless four. Four answers lose the letters COX (not consecutively) on entry. In three clues subsidiary indications lead to CRACKNELL, FOSTER, PINSENT;
3689 28/09/2002 The Plays of the Bard IX Salamanca Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, eight being jumbled; subsidiary indications in these clues involve extra letters, spelling SCOTTISH, suggesting the play 'Macbeth'. Outermost circle contains 'FOR TH' INGREDIENCE OF OUR CAULDRON'; two unclued
3690 05/10/2002 Omissions Phi In each clue a word has lost its initial or final letter, spelling 'WORDS FROM LOOSE USING HAVE LOST THEIR EDGE'; fifteen lights have a letter falling outside the grid, spelling clockwise ERNEST HEMINGWAY (to be written beneath the grid rather than around
3691 12/10/2002 Four-Letter Word Mordred Grid is a hexagonal lattice; lights are 6- or 7-letter, to be entered around numbered hexagons (with initial letters of 7-letter lights, spelling CHESHIRE, entered in the numbered hexagons in the top left corner). Blocking in a sequence given in the pream
3692 19/10/2002 Portfolio Loda Across answers are entered with extra letters, spelling THE FTSE ALL-SHARE INDEX; down clues have superfluous words, whose initial letters spell INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING. Each column relates to one of 13 shares, given a 3-letter trading code, which appears
3693 26/10/2002 Hope is a 6-letter Word Tea Leaves Grid is blank with rows and columns labelled by numbers and letters; clues are given in alphabetical order of light (4-letter), to be entered along king's moves with starting and finishing squares given. One clue in each group of three contains a superflu
3694 02/11/2002 Peeper’s Current Offering Peeper Half the clues have a B missing; remaining answers lose a B on entry. Top, middle and bottom rows contain 'NO SHADE, NO SHINE, NO (B)UTTERFLIES, (NO BEES)' - THOMAS HOOD.
3695 09/11/2002 Trust not the Printers The Irishman Most clues have portions of words misprinted, e.g. 'plantain' for 'planted', these occurring in complementary pairs; the clue to ROGUE is PD. Six answers are Bible editions named after misprints, the lights being the corrected words; the title refers to t
3696 16/11/2002 A Cruel Cut Aragon Answers are entered with all occurrences of M or E omitted; unclued lights are (ED)GAR ALLA(N) POE (author of 'The Raven', who quoth 'NEVERMORE'), CHARLE(S) D(I)C(K)E(NS) (whose novel 'Barnaby Rudge' contains a raven called GRIP), R(U)TH RE(N)DELL (author
3697 23/11/2002 Wildlife Down Under Tiburon Four across answers lose all occurrences of a letter on entry, spelling EURO; subsidiary indications in down clues involve extra letters, spelling EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION (or EMU for short). In six squares 3 letters from the across light clash with 3 from
3698 30/11/2002 Twinset Zag Numerical puzzle with two identical grids and two clues at each location given in either order.
3699 07/12/2002 Conversion Arcturus Half the clues are MP, spelling 'NOT ANGLES, BUT ANGELS'; remaining answers are all 6-letter, entered with two adjacent letters transposed to form new words.
3700 14/12/2002 Minesweeper BeRo Grid is blank with rows and columns labelled by numbers and letters, and represents an area of ocean containing 19 mines, to be discovered and marked; lights may travel in any of 8 directions from given starting squares, and change direction upon meeting
3701 21/12/2002 Wet Feet Schadenfreude Eight clues contain superfluous words, whose initial and final letters may be arranged to form REVERSED and CROSSING respectively; unchecked letters in their lights may be arranged to form THE GOONS. Centre of main diagonal is THE IRISH SEA, crossed by GN
3702 28/12/2002 *** Franc Only letters A, M, E, R, I and C are entered from answers; ALISTAIR COOKE, NICK CLARKE and LETTERS FROM AMERICA are unclued, the last to be written beneath the grid.
3703 04/01/2003 Pardon the Interruption II Jago Each light is 'interrupted' once by a crossing but non-intersecting light.
3704 11/01/2003 Varied States? Auctor Answers are misprinted on entry, spelling 'IGNOTAS ANIMUM DIMITTIT IN ARTES', the ending of the Labyrinth story in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and used as epigraph in Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'; unclued lights are LABYRINTH (CAVITY, TANG
3705 18/01/2003 A Problem with Liquidity Waterloo Letters L and R are regarded as interchangeable in both clues and lights, with a dot replacing each occurrence in the grid
3706 25/01/2003 Up and Down Elfman Puzzle concerns the opening lines of 'A Tale of Two Cities': five asterisked clues lack definitions, leading to DESPAIR, DARKNESS, WORST, INCREDULITY, FOOLISHNESS; they are followed by Playfair-coded versions of HOPE, LIGHT, BEST, BELIEF, WISDOM; the ligh KEY: London, Paris
3707 01/02/2003 Avoid Mod Subsidiary indications in 12 clues involve extra letters, spelling GEORGES PEREC; most other answers lose occurrences of E on entry. Main diagonal contains A BOOK LACKING E (the last letter appearing in an isolated square), describing 'LA DISPARITION', to
3708 08/02/2003 Silver Ark 25 clues are MP, spelling 'ANY COLOUR - SO LONG AS IT'S BLACK', indicating how most of the grid should be filled in. Remaining clues contain superfluous words (all examples or definitions of colours or money), whose initial letters spell '(THE) COLOR OF M
3709 15/02/2003 Sixes and Sevens Sabre Each row and column contains one 5- and one 7-letter light. The latter are entered normally, but in each quadrant the locations of only two are given. The former are jumbles of 6-letter answers less one letter, to be found in the 7-letter light in the sam
3710 22/02/2003 Minefield Aedites Numerical puzzle; grid is blank, and represents a minefield, with mines to be represented by black squares and each other square to contain 0, 1, 2 or 3 denoting the number of mines in adjacent squares. Lights are to be taken in base 4, and are clued as p
3711 01/03/2003 Compounds Syd Lexis In nine squares (symmetrically arranged), clashes are to be resolved by replacing the letters, which are chemical symbols, by their atomic numbers, adding those and converting back to a letter; the ten symbols used are the initial letters of corresponding
3712 08/03/2003 Isle Viking Unclued lights are FICTION, FABLE, GAG, FLAM, ONER, FIB - all 'lies'; the title represents 'damned lies'; subsidiary indications lead to misprinted forms of the lights, the misprints spelling 'NOS NUMEROS SUMUS ET FRUGES CONSUMERE NATI'. Tracing the bell
3713 15/03/2003 Carte Très Blanche Elgin Grid is not given, but is a 3 x 56 rectangle forming the surface of a M÷bius strip; unclued lights are GERMAN, AUGUST, MOBIUS.
3714 22/03/2003 Decisions Bufo Subsidiary indications in across clues involve extra letters; the choice of which is to be regarded as the extra letter yields two possible answers for each such light, differing in an unchecked position. Down lights are misprinted, with the correct versi
3715 29/03/2003 Coded Secret Samson In each across answer only odd or even letters are entered. Down lights in odd-numbered columns are jumbled; diagonals contain jumbles of SAMUEL MORSE and COLIN DEXTER (with the letter in the central isolated square to be deduced). Each down light loses a
3716 05/04/2003 Varying in Character Mr Magoo Clues are MP, spelling THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, STANZA FORTY-NINE, LINE ONE (which reads ''Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days'). Various clashes occur in the grid; these are resolving by shading squares in chessboard fashion, with shaded squa
3717 12/04/2003 Europe’s Ports Alberich Clues are given in alphabetical order of answer; most contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell LAST FIVE WORDS OF MATTHEW CHAPTER NINETEEN, which in the Authorised Version are 'the last shall be first'; all lights are entered with final lett
3718 19/04/2003 Breaking the Rules Kea Some letters stretch over two squares, and consequently read as other letters in crossing lights, e.g. Y entered in a down light contributes V and I to the across lights.
3719 26/04/2003 Inferno II — Circles I and II Hellphire Top half of the grid represents the First Circle of Hell: 13 answers lose gods on entry (UNGOD being unclued), and unclued lights are HOMER, LUCAN, VIRGIL, OVID and a jumble of HORACE (to form ACHERON in top row). Lights crossing from top half to bottom h
3720 03/05/2003 Siblings Adam Three answers are CORDELIA, GONERIL, REGAN, entered using a substitution cipher; the coded form of LEAR is to be highlighted.
3721 10/05/2003 And One Has Two: An Archaic Alphabet Mr E Some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial one or two letters followed by two lights and the title spell THERE IS AN EXCEPTION TO EVERY RULE (meaning SENTENCE here), and one has two; thus each sentence of the preamble fails at some point to be co
3722 17/05/2003 Cross Purposes Gioconda Eleven across answers contain words meaning 'fury', which must be replaced by letter-pairs spelling ALECTO, MEGAERA, TISIPHONE. Subsidiary indications in remaining across clues involve extra letters, spelling 'BLIND FURY ...'; those in down clues lead to
3723 24/05/2003 To __________ Apex Symmetrically opposite lights have double clues separated by superfluous words; across answers lose and down answers gain letters. Omitted letters spell THE COMEDIAN BOB HOPE; added letters spell 'THE CAT AND THE CANARY' and initial letters of superfluous
3724 31/05/2003 A Roman Puzzle Elap Numerical puzzle using Roman numerals, with many lights appearing in arithmetic progressions.
3725 07/06/2003 Additional Characterisation Duck Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling 'JUST SO STORIES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN' - RUDYARD KIPLING. Five squares contain clashes; these lie in the same row, at the ends of THUMB, INDEX, MIDDLE, RING and LITTLE reading upwards, with th
3726 14/06/2003 The Solver … Ix Each clue contains a superfluous word; the initial letter of the answer is entered in the appropriate square, the remainder elsewhere. The initial letter of the superfluous word is the fourth letter of the light. Final letters of superfluous words in acro
3727 21/06/2003 33 1 Across Monk Nine down clues comprise definitions of two words and a mixture of those letters which are entered normally; in each case a word straddling the two is entered symbolically, e.g. HEPATISE, VENERATOR become HEPATI7ERATOR. (Two such words are CUBED and SQUAR
3728 28/06/2003 Who Am I? Amicus Subsidiary indications in clues involve pairs of extra letters, spelling CATHERINE OF ARAGON, ANNE BOLEYN, JANE SEYMOUR, THE FLANDERS MARE, CATHERINE HOWARD AND CATHERINE PARR; their fates 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived' (repeated
3729 05/07/2003 Code Sequence Schadenfreude Clues are presented in alphabetical order of answers; each answer loses a pair of letters on entry, to be found in a superfluous word in the clue. The omissions are the ZIP codes of the 50 American states, with the grid numbers giving the order of joining
3730 12/07/2003 Multiple Clues Waterloo Eleven lights have multiple clues, leading to the words of a word-square with rows and columns equal; the light in each case is the word down the main diagonal, e.g. CLAP, LACE, ACT, PEAS lead to CATS.
3731 19/07/2003 Round Ascot Grid is circular with 6-letter radial lights, taken in ten groups of four; in each group one light is unclued (GOALBY, LANGER, STYMIE, WATSON, BIRDIE, ALLISS, DOGLEG, LEHMAN, FRINGE, STANCE), while one clue is DLM with the letter-mixture also containing t
3732 26/07/2003 A Song of the Sea Bandmaster Puzzle concerns John Gay's 'Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan', which contains the lines 'All in the Downs the fleet was moored ... When black-eyed Susan came aboard'. Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell THUNBERGIA
3733 02/08/2003 Hole in the Wall Obiter Grid represents a wall built of overlapping bricks, with a central hole; each brick contains a letter, entered centrally if an unchecked letter in an across light and otherwise in the half of the brick enabling down lights to be read without a stagger. Un
3734 09/08/2003 No Turning Back Ark Twelve letters are ignored in subsidiary indications in clues, spelling 'JACTA EST ALEA', to be translated to 'THE DIE IS CAST' on entry (all lights changed still being words). Six squares contain ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX at the centres of 3 x 3 s
3735 16/08/2003 Sparta Charybdis Unclued light is LORD ACTON, who said that 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'; answers containing AP are replaced by anagrams while those containing just P have one letter misplaced or two interchanged, all lights still being
3736 23/08/2003 Alphabet Soup Dave Across and down clues are paired in an order to be determined, with subsidiary indications being interchanged; on entry the initial letter of one answer is removed and added to the beginning of the other, the letters removed and initial letters of answers
3737 30/08/2003 Verity Hill’s Dice-Box Googly Numerical puzzle; thirteen letters stand for primes between 11 and 59, with the other 13 letters standing for single digits (some of which may be represented by more than one letter or no letters). The nets of three dice are to be highlighted in the grid;
3738 06/09/2003 Year Planner Phi Grid represents the last twelve columns of a year planner, with top row representing September (to be discovered); black squares are to be used where months have fewer than 31 days. Across clues are given in alphabetical order of answer; subsidiary indica
3739 13/09/2003 Ouch! Pabulum Top and bottom halves of grid contains the lights LOCKET and FISHER respectively; the letters of POCKET are to be transferred from the centre of a row in the top half to the corresponding position in the bottom half, leaving and filling blank squares and
3740 20/09/2003 Acro’s Sword Bufo Word spacing, punctuation and/or capitalisation is misleading in each clue (title is 'A Crossword'); subsidiary indications in across clues ignore letters, spelling HIGHLIGHT TWO SWORDS: grid contains EXCALIBUR and SABRE forming a sword shape.
3741 27/09/2003 EH? Ploy In eight answers RED must be shifted; 19 other clues contain superfluous words, whose initial or final letters spell EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE and EXPANDING UNIVERSE. Central row contains BIG BANG (to be highlighted).
3742 04/10/2003 Beeline Franc Grid is hexagonal; lights are 7-letter, entered in clusters centred on numbered hexagons, which contain 'YOU ARE MY HONEY, HONEYSUCKLE, I AM THE BEE' - FITZ.
3743 11/10/2003 Bonxie Mr Lemon Unclued lights are GUIILEMOT and LITTLE AUK; 9 answers each are affected by RAZORBILL (remove initial letter) and PUFFIN (insert 'ad'), all lights produced being words; subsidiary indications in remaining clues involve extra letters, spelling THE GREAT AU
3744 18/10/2003 The Plays of the Bard X Salamanca Unclued lights are PLAUTUS, 'AMPHITRUO' and 'MENAECHMI' (the source of the plot of 'The Comedy of Errors'). Most clues are DLM and comprise quotations from the play with interpolated erroneous words which contain either the definition or the letter-mixtur
3745 25/10/2003 Excursion Merlin 35 clues contain extra letters, spelling 'C'EST MAGNIFIQUE, MAIS CE N'EST PAS LA GUERRE'; in three answers LEA or GUE is moved forwards, while two others lose DO and DIE. In three squares portions of lights contribute to form 'JAWS OF DEATH', 'MOUTH OF HE
3746 01/11/2003 WRONG Auctor Clues are double, with each across light paired with a crossing down light (the correspondence to be determined); one of each pair is LL, the omitted letters followed by the intersections of each pair of lights spelling 'SEND IN FINISHED ENTRY IN LOWER CA
3747 08/11/2003 A Game of 20 Glow-worm Six 4-letter boys' and girls' names are to be found forming a 4 x 6 rectangle (with three names reading upwards), playing SARDINES. Ten clues contain superfluous words, five being SMELT, PERCH, SKATE, SOLE, BASS and five being anagrams of SARDINES (compri
3748 15/11/2003 Cards Sabre Grid is blank; each row contains three lights, the middle one having a DLM clue, while each column contains two lights. 52 squares contain clashes; the correct choices spell ACE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, JACK, QUEEN, KING in t
3749 22/11/2003 Divine Llig Five lights clued without definition are VERDI, CHOPIN, HAYDN, WAGNER, ELGAR; other clues are MP, spelling 'AT LENGTH (DIVINE) CECILIA CAME, INVENTRESS OF THE VOCAL FRAME'. Main diagonals contain BRITTEN - HYMN and PURCELL - ODE, to be highlighted.
3750 29/11/2003 A Faulty Calculator Aedites Numerical puzzle; clues concern division of one integer by another with digits to the right of the decimal point ignored. Completed grid is a Latin square, with each row and column containing each digit from 1 to 9 exactly once.
3751 06/12/2003 Straight Down Mr Magoo 24 clues lead to anagrams of lights, whose locations are to be determined; initial letters of these answers spell DUAL FOLDS CREATE SECOND ONE. Two vertical folds must be made so as to leave visible just the outer pair of columns on each side, revealing i
3752 13/12/2003 Joiners The Tall'n Nine clues contain superfluous words whose letters must be combined with those of the answer to form the light, entered either vertically upwards (ARMSTRONG, YURI GAGARIN, SIKORSKY, MONTGOLFIER) or across and then diagonally upwards (BL+RIOT, LINDBERGH, A
3753 20/12/2003 How to Tell? Dimitry Answers are entered by treating letters as bells and 'change-ringing' them; every third SW-NE diagonal, read boustrophedon, contains 'THE CHRISTMAS BELLS FROM HILL TO HILL ANSWER EACH OTHER IN THE MIST'.
3754 27/12/2003 ___________ Apex There are 3 types of clues: normal, MP and PD. Perimeter contains WHAT PIG HAS TO BECOME WHEN GRIPPED BY HUNGER, a clue to PANTOPHAGIST, appearing in central row. Correct letters in MP clues form an arrangement of GALLIMAUFRY (to be written beneath the gr
3755 03/01/2004 Incomplete Clues Waterloo Each clue is missing the word which is the preceding light.
3756 10/01/2004 Listener Team Duck Clues contain one or more superfluous words. In seven cases, where the answer is entered normally, there is just one superfluous word, and their initial letters spell EZEKIEL. All other answers are entered with one or more misprints, which form TOE, FOOT,
3757 17/01/2004 Buffer Zones Mordred In 13 squares portions of lights contribute to form jumbles of London terminal railway stations, appropriately located, to be replaced by X: ST PANCRAS, KING'S CROSS, MARYLEBONE, EUSTON, LIVERPOOL STREET, PADDINGTON, BLACKFRIARS, CANNON STREET, FENCHURCH
3758 24/01/2004 Asylag Elgin Clues contain superfluous words; in eight cases it defines the light; in remaining cases taking the initial or final letter spells USE SUBSTITUTION CIPHER THEN REORDER, explaining how the eight lights are to be obtained from the answers (the other choice
3759 31/01/2004 A Matter of Numeracy Obiter 24 lights also form words when NO is either inserted or omitted; in their clues, definitions lead to one word and subsidiary indications to the other.
3760 07/02/2004 Double Carte Blanche Phi Grid is blank, and represents two different grids; clues to these are paired in order. The two completed grids are to be superimposed and only letters which agree are to be entered; these spell PALIMPSEST.
3761 14/02/2004 Spoilt for Choice III Jago Each square is bisected, alternately horizontally and vertically, giving a choice for entry in every other square.
3762 21/02/2004 Casing the Joint Gioconda Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling 'TAKE YOUR HARE WHEN IT IS CASED' - 'THE ART OF COOKERY'; two clues without definition lead to HANNAH GLASSE; 16 answers lose a jumble of HARE on entry.
3763 28/02/2004 Fossil Beds Arden Numerical puzzle representing a series of strata in increasing order of age; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z stand for the numbers 0.5, 1, 1.5, ..., 13 in an order to be determined, and clues are in terms of them, with across clues being names of fossils tr
3764 06/03/2004 Playbill Adam Certain squares are asterisked, containing CORAL and ISLE NOISY, hinting at 'The Tempest', six of whose characters appear jumbled with missing letters as normally clued lights:(S)TEPHANO becomes PHAETON, TRINCU(L)O becomes RUCTION, (M)IRANDA becomes RADIA
3765 13/03/2004 Squaring the Circle II Amicus Clues to lights other than those in the perimeter contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'WE DANCE ROUND IN A RING AND SUPPOSE, BUT THE SECRET SITS IN THE MIDDLE AND KNOWS'. Centre of grid contains BULL, suggesting a dartboard; converting
3766 20/03/2004 Double Cross? Ploy Four answers consist of two creatures next to each other: CHAR-PIE, MAN-TUAN, BUG-BEAR, WOLF-RAM; eight others are to be jumbled to achieve this, e.g. METAPHRASE becomes HAMSTER-APE. Central column contains CHIMERISM (unclued).
3767 27/03/2004 A Decoy Ark 18 clues must have J, R or P inserted or removed before solving. Each row has an unchecked square which would need to contain two letters to accommodate the light; one is to be removed. Making one choice and reading in row order spells 'LORD OF THE FLIES'
3768 03/04/2004 What’s Missing? Piccadilly Clues are DLM, with clues to words in the same row or column run together. Down answers lose birds on entry (sometimes straddling pairs of answers); empty squares are to be shaded, spelling BIRDS.
3769 10/04/2004 Miscellaneous Pieces MynoT From answers, only odd letters and then the final letter are entered, e.g. LINCRUSTA becomes LNRSAA; reading from top left corner to top right corner via the centre spells ODDS AND ENDS.
3770 17/04/2004 Journey Arcturus Grid represents SE England; down answers are enciphered by writing the alphabet (less Z) above the codephrase and replacing letters from the latter by those above them (so that some letters may have various possible encipherings and others may have none). KEY: A verray parfit gentil knyght
3771 24/04/2004 First Principles Nibor Grid is blank; clues are presented in alphabetical order of answers, with subsidiary indications involving one or two extra letters in each case; these are the symbols for chemical elements with atomic numbers 1 to 42 and thus give the grid numbers of the
3772 01/05/2004 1450? Ix Top and bottom rows, clued without definition, are RUPERT BROOKE and GRANTCHESTER; remainder of grid is in two identical halves. At each location the clues are given in random order; one of each pair is LL (spelling 'IS THERE HONEY STILL FOR TEA?'), and t
3773 08/05/2004 Ill-defined Bufo viridis Definitions in across clues have been altered in various ways; answers are altered in the same ways on entry.
3774 15/05/2004 Overview Charybdis Subsidiary indications in across clues involve extra letters, spelling 'YOU CAN'T SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES'; six trees or shrubs (DALI, HOLLY, CORNEL, GORSE, SCROG, COLA) are unclued. One letter in each is to be changed so that the crossing light become
3775 22/05/2004 A Trifling Puzzle Arepo Unclued lights have anagrams which are synonyms (or variant forms); clues are MP, spelling definitions of three further examples: 'TO GRIN', 'TO TAP', 'BY CONFUSION, THE TAHR' (the words being GIRN, PAT, THAR). One unclued light AUBRIETIA does not quite f
3776 29/05/2004 The Powers That Be Trev Numerical puzzle; each light is a power of an integer (only one of which appears twice in the clues).
3777 05/06/2004 Lacunae Kea Some clues contain words in which a letter is to be replaced by a lacuna, e.g. Sophoclean becomes Soph clean; removed letters spell O, I ABHOR A GAP. Remaining answers are entered with blank squares; 11 are then filled with the removed letters to form new
3778 12/06/2004 Home Run Viking Central row contains the unclued light BLOOMSDAY (the date being 16/06/1904); three clues contain combined letter-mixtures of STEPHEN/TELEMACHUS, LEOPOLD/ODYSSEUS, MOLLY/PENELOPE, with the first name forming the light and the second to be written beneath
3779 19/06/2004 Autobiography Tiburon Each answer is entered misprinted, spelling ONE LETTER FROM EACH CLUE AS KEYED BY CLUE NUMBER; taking these yields TREATING A TO M AS DOTS INTERPRET GRID AS BRAILLE; doing so yields '(The) STORY OF MY LIFE' - HELEN KELLER. Certain lettered squares contain
3780 26/06/2004 Exemplary Clues Waterloo 21 clues lack definition, but are examples of the lights, e.g. 'Not exactly tidy toilets' leads to LITOTES.
3781 03/07/2004 One or Two? Aedites 48 squares each contain two letters, either two from one light in an unchecked square or two clashing letters. In each case the pair form an abbreviation of an American state (apart from Alaska and Hawaii), correctly located; centre of top row contains US
3782 10/07/2004 Alibi Auctor Each answer loses a letter on entry, omissions being in alphabetical order. The omitted letters affect definitions in other clues, by being omitted, being inserted, replacing another letter or being replaced; in clue order these spell parts of a quotation
3783 17/07/2004 Bard Puzzle His Nibs Bottom row contains 'ALL THE WORLD'S (a stage)'; unclued lights, appropriately placed, are 'gods' (CRONUS, OSIRIS), 'balcony' (VERANDAH), 'dress-circle' (FROCK, ORBIT), 'stalls' (DELAY, HEDGE), 'boxes' (CASES, SPARS), 'wings' (TALARIA, HASTENS).
3784 24/07/2004 Part Exchange Obiter Ten clues are double: the definitions refer to the lights, while the subsidiary indications refer to the words obtained by interchanging their ends (of 2 or more letters).
3785 31/07/2004 Crosspatch Dipper Eight rows contain vegetables; two contain jumbles of vegetables; the other two contain words from which vegetables have been removed. Down lights are jumbled.
3786 07/08/2004 Destroy After Reading Phi Some across lights spill over into extra columns at sides, spelling CHANGE THESE; the overflowing letters are to be altered to form new words. Some down clues contain superfluous words, defining the new words; initial or final letters of definitions in re
3787 14/08/2004 John (a Dedication) Gos Theme is 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins (WC = John): FAIRLIE, HARTRIGHT, GLYDE, HALCOMBE appear at centres of edges and FOSCO in middle of central column; a diamond shape contains WH-ANNE CATHERICK-ITE, to be highlighted.
3788 21/08/2004 Wealth Lucan Most clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell LAWS NEED TO BE BROKEN TO FINISH THIS CROSSWORD; remaining clues (asterisked) lack definitions and lead to jumbles of GAY-LUSSAC, MURPHY, VERNER, PARKINSON, CHARLES, GRIMM, GRESHAM, SNELL.
3789 28/08/2004 Spotless IOA Numerical puzzle; completed grid comprises the 28 dominoes arranged in a 7 x 8 rectangle, and the positions of those including a 6 are to be highlighted.
3790 04/09/2004 Treatment for Bill Ark Ten normal clues have answers which when preceded by the grid numbers lead to the lights, e.g. GALLON at 36 Across gives BARREL (= 36 GALLONs). Remaining across clues have extra letters spelling MEASURE FOR MEASURE; each of the remaining down clues contai
3791 11/09/2004 Circular Saw Samson Grid is circular, with 8-letter radial lights entered jumbled; two adjacent letters in each are placed in the outer shell, spelling 'O TO RULE THEM ALL, O TO FIND THEM, O TO BRING THEM ALL AND IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM'. Unclued lights are 'FOR MORTAL MEN
3792 18/09/2004 Cswd Gnomon Each answer loses any letters which are equal to those symmetrically placed about its centre, e.g. INDICATIONS becomes IDCTOS.
3793 25/09/2004 Debut Athene Clues are MP, spelling 'I THINK IT WOULD BE FUN TO RUN A NEWSPAPER' - C.F. KANE. Ten answers are replaced by the relevant names from the film 'Citizen Kane', with WELLES replacing LEAD, COWRITER, DIRECTOR and PRODUCER.
3794 02/10/2004 One Across Adam Clues are in three groups, each containing six across and six down: 'Anagram' clues lead to a word to which a letter must be added and an anagram formed to create the light; 'Definition' clues contain definitions of the 'Anagram' lights; 'Normal' clues le
3795 09/10/2004 Koeql Haeospo Elgin Four lights are Playfair-coded; 16 others lose a letter on entry, spelling CHRISTIAN + HOPEFUL, which escape from a central region in the shape of a CASTLE (to be shaded) formed where the letters of DOUBTING occur in the grid. KEY: Promise
3796 16/10/2004 Theme and Variations Jago The lights JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART, CHARLES EDWARD STUART, LAMBERT SIMNEL and PERKIN WARBECK are clued by definitions; PRETENDERS is to be highlighted in NE-SW diagonal.
3797 23/10/2004 NO SPEAR ? Title is NEW PERSONA; seven clues are MP, spelling VLAD THE; setter is an anagram of unclued lights VAMPIRE and OLD LETCH, with others being ORDER OF THE DRAGON, WALLACHIA, BLEEDER, PRETTY YOUNG FEMALES, PUN. Four lights lose A, B, AB or O on entry while
3798 30/10/2004 12 Down Part 1 Charybdis In 17 squares portions of lights contribute to form names of flowers, to be replaced by dots and joined in an order specified in the preamble to create a flower; in most clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling 'IL Y'A DES FLEURS PARTO
3799 06/11/2004 Fireworks Sabre In each set of four symmetrically positioned lights, two are entered normally, one is jumbled and one encoded using a simple substitution cipher; the last are unclued, and are names of volcanoes.
3800 13/11/2004 A Numerical Puzzle Waterloo Each light is entered within its row or column in a sequence of squares, each reached from its predecessor by counting on the number of squares equal to the grid number (and treating the first row or column as following the last).
3801 20/11/2004 A Piece of Cake Gioconda Nine lights in each direction are formed by adding a word fragment to the answer; these fragments are to be paired to form names of cakes with letters removed, these forming LAMINGTON (to be written beneath the grid).
3802 27/11/2004 One Off Elap Numerical puzzle; the clue for each light is the digits in ascending order, but with many replaced by blanks. Each light is one less than a perfect square.
3803 04/12/2004 R & L Schadenfreude Grid is blank, with clues across and down given in order. Only letters exhibiting MIRROR SYMMETRY (unclued), i.e., A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, Y, are entered
3804 11/12/2004 Pieces of Eight Ascot All lights are 8-letter, entered clockwise or anti-clockwise about numbered squares. Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling 'SENSIBLE MEN ARE ALL OF THE SAME RELIGION', from 'ENDYMION' by DISRAELI (unclued).
3805 18/12/2004 Stocking Up Arcturus Most clues are MP, spelling ''TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS'; thematic across clues lead either to creatures, entered jumbled with A removed (as in 'NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING') or to mice with only letters in odd positions entered (as in 'NOT EVEN A M
3806 01/01/2005 New Year’s Revolution Kea Each letter of the alphabet is to be systematically replaced by a symbol obtained by drawing lines joining midpoints of edges of the square concerned; the correspondence between letters and symbols is to be discovered. One quarter of the lights are entere
3807 08/01/2005 Keys MynoT GUIDO D'AREZZO, TONIC SOL-FA and SCALES are unclued; the last of these and thematic lights DULCIAN, BASSOON, THEORBO, UKELELE, TOM-TOM, LYRICON, VIHUELA, BANDORA, TIMPANO (clued without definition) are entered with internal blank squares. Subsidiary indic
3808 15/01/2005 Join the Dots Merlin Lights are to be entered in pencil; in 25 squares letters clash, and a dot is to be entered, (conceptually) numbered by the numerical difference between the two letters. The dots are to be joined in order to form an inverted picture of a SNOWMAN (to be in
3809 22/01/2005 Inferno III — Circles III and IV Hellphire Top half of grid represents the Third Circle of Hell: across clues to five of the six rows are double, with one answer normal and the other a glutton, which must lose a letter (spelling a jumble of DANTE) to form another word and be surrounded by RAIN, HA
3810 29/01/2005 High and Low Bandmaster 28 normal clues lead to answers clashing in 14 squares; taking one choice in each in order spells AURORA BOREALIS. Remaining clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell INITIAL VOLUME OF 'HIS DARK MATERIALS', leading to NORTHERN LIGHTS, w
3811 05/02/2005 Murder Mystery Gos A diagonal contains LOOK HERE, with the final square the start of ELLERY (reading upwards) QUEEN (reading backwards), the whole forming an arrow pointing to a 3 x 3 square containing THE BUTLER (reading boustrophedon). All lights containing squares concer
3812 12/02/2005 Plea Loda Clues contain superfluous words (whose initial letters spell A SINGLE RED ROSE; MUSIC PLAYING; CANDLELIT TABLE; CHAMPAGNE ON ICE) and extra letters (spelling THE BEATLES - 'ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE'; FRANK SINATRA - 'THREE LITTLE WORDS'). Squares containing O
3813 19/02/2005 Organised Mr Magoo Grid initially has only some bars, indicating a division into nine 4 x 4 'tiles', with the top left squares of each labelled by letters spelling ORGANISED when read in normal order; other bars are to be entered within tiles. Clues are in normal order and
3814 26/02/2005 Call Changes Aedites Numerical puzzle; lights, labelled by letters in random order (with upper and lower case for across and down respectively), run from the end of a row or column to its beginning as necessary, and are all 5-digit, representing different permutations of 1, 2
3815 05/03/2005 Mission Accomplished Duck Central row contains ENGLISH CHANNEL (unclued); letters forming VODKA, GIN, CIDER, BEER, PORT are removed at any point from the across answers in each of the rows in the bottom half of the grid, and inserted at any point in the across answers in the corre
3816 12/03/2005 Echoes Auctor Each light begins in a different square, and clues are given in numerical order. All but five of the clues are to be treated cyclically, and in each the definition has been moved to the next in the sequence; these lights are entered misprinted, with the m
3817 19/03/2005 Tom, Dick & Harry Hubris Subsidiary indications in clues involve extra letters, spelling THE GREAT ESCAPE BY RAF POWS FROM STALAG LUFT THREE; twelve answers lose a jumble of POW on entry.
3818 26/03/2005 Split Personalities Athene Clues have exchanged either definitions or subsidiary indications in pairs; four perimeter 8-letter lights each consist of two 4-letter words, with one exchanged to form MEMO-CARD, TEST-RISE, LEAP-LIPS, GYMS-YEAR; main diagonal contains MAD AS A HATTER (t
3819 02/04/2005 A Musical Crossword Electra Puzzle celebrating 75th anniversary of first Listener puzzle: across clues contain extra characters, spelling 2 APR 1930 LISTENER CROSSWORD NO. 1; down clues are MP, spelling GGAGCB GGAGDC GGGECBA FFECDC (the notes of the tune 'Happy Birthday to you'). Ei
3820 09/04/2005 Disappearance Sabre 15 answers have extra letters interpolated; when shaded, these squares form the letters H E L L. Main diagonal, read twice and splitting near the end to read down and across, reads 'WEAVE THE WARP (and) WEAVE THE WOOF'; the quotation continues 'GIVE AMPLE
3821 16/04/2005 A Little Light Amusement Ploy Subsidiary indications lead to misprints of lights; incorrect letters spell DOUBLE BARS ACT AS MIRRORS: DRAW LIGHT RAYS: SHADE A NAME. Six lights starting or finishing at a double bar are entered in reverse; a path from top right to bottom left, reflected
3822 23/04/2005 Give and Take Radix Across clues contain extra letters, spelling BEEEEEFMNOOORRRSTTTVW; these must be transferred to the down clues, spelling 'EVEN FROM WORSE TO BETTER'. Perimeter (read as top and bottom rows then first and last columns) contains the beginning of the quotat
3823 30/04/2005 ’Orrible Sextet Mespot Title is an anagram of BRISTOL-EXETER, which journey is represented in the grid; central column contains M FIVE MOTORWAY, crossing rivers AVON, YEO, AXE, PARRETT, TONE, CULM, CLYST, whose letters are omitted in subsidiary indications in clues.
3824 07/05/2005 Long Division Schadenfreude On initial solving, 13 squares are empty, while the central column of unchecked letters contains THE BERLIN WALL; these 13 letters are to be redistributed among the empty squares so that all lights are still words.
3825 14/05/2005 Absolutely Not Merlin Half the clues in each direction are MP, spelling ALBERT EINSTEIN and ANNUS MIRABILIS; other clues are LL, spelling LORENTZ-FITZGERALD CONTRACTION. Taking one letter from the answer to each MP clue in order gives the phrase 'THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVI
3826 21/05/2005 New for Old Samson Central across light is STADIA; down lights lose fragments spelling FILBERT STREET, MAINE ROAD, THE DELL, ROKER PARK, AYRESOME PARK in order, while perimeter contains (unclued) the replacements WALKERS [Stadium], CITY OF MANCHESTER [Stadium], ST. MARY'S [
3827 28/05/2005 The Latin Squire Arden Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z stand for the numbers from 1 to 26 in some order, and clues are in terms of them. In the completed grid each digit from 0 to 7 appears once in each row and column; a knight's tour may then be traced, startin
3828 04/06/2005 The Plays of the Bard XI Salamanca Grid is circular, with all but seven radial lights entered inward; the remainder are entered jumbled, with subsidiary indications involving extra letters spelling a jumble of DUCDAME. Outer circle contains ''TIS A GREEK INVOCATION TO CALL FOOLS IN[to a ci
3829 11/06/2005 OO! Spectacles? Waterloo In each clue the subsidiary indication includes at least one example of reference to a letter or combination of letters by approximate visual resemblance, e.g. 'pylon' = A, 'costermonger's barrow' = TO, 'parcel' = 'EEI'.
3830 18/06/2005 Dates Pieman Some squares contain two letters each; some down answers are anagrams of the lights with letters removed, spelling a jumble of WATERLOO. Across clues are MP, spelling ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-5, the difference in years (to the day) between the Battle of Wat
3831 25/06/2005 In the Bush Gioconda Twelve clues lack definitions: six of the lights are 'a bird in the hand' (PA-ALICE-W, MI-PETRA-TT, P-RENE-UD, F-ETHEL-IST, DE-BEA-AL, S-NINA-TYLE), while the other six are 'two in the bush' (DO-TESS+ADA-G, M-JO+LENA-AN, T-MEG+IVY-EA, FL-LIZ+MO-Y, CA-DI+M
3832 02/07/2005 Assistance for the Solver Phi Each row (except one) contains two lights, with one letter transferred from one to the other, spelling BAKER STREET; each column (except three) contains two lights, with one jumbled and the other LL, spelling IRREGULARS. Remaining across light is WIGGINS;
3833 09/07/2005 Daylight Shrubbery Dipper Clues concern gardening; definitions (if not normal) have been beheaded, jumbled, moved to another clue or surrounded by other letters to form a longer word.
3834 16/07/2005 Sketch Aedites In 14 clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling BLACKETT, WALKER; perimeter contains ARTHUR RANSOME WROTE THE NOVEL 'SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS' (published 21/07/1930). In 8 squares clashes are resolved by entering dots, which must be joined
3835 23/07/2005 Down Under Emkay All lights are entered from indicated starting squares with a right angle turn at some point. Bottom row contains THE OCEAN BOTTOM; reading upwards, centres of rows above give DIVERS - IF THEY COME UP FAST THIS WILL HAPPEN. The first of these words is to
3836 30/07/2005 Part Exchange Hubris In each clue to a perimeter light, the subsidiary indication leads to the word formed by replacing part of the light by its opposite, e.g. PLUNDERS/PLOVERS, TALLIES/SHORTIES.
3837 06/08/2005 The Devil’s Own Obiter The 14 unclued lights are both ordinary words and Dickensian names, and occur in 7 crossing pairs with letters in intersections forming an arrangement of DICKENS.
3838 13/08/2005 Carte Blanche en Plus Tiburon Only the perimeter squares are given, with the remainder to be constructed; some of these are larger or smaller than usual. Clues are given in order; six are normal, with the total number of their letters equal to that in the completed grid; subsidiary in
3839 20/08/2005 A Game of 2 Glow-worm Ten clues contain superfluous three-letter groups, spelling IMPOSING, LOGAN, PUDDING, SATIN, ALTAR, all of which can be followed by STONE and appear as jumbles as unclued lights; their initials can be arranged to form LAPIS, which replaces JEWEL as a ligh
3840 27/08/2005 Telling Fibs Amicus Numerical puzzle; the letters A, B, C, ..., Z (excluding I and O) stand for the Fibonacci numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ..., 75025 in some order, and clues are in terms of them.
3841 03/09/2005 Foreign Parts Sabre Grid has numbers but no bars. Certain lights are entered with two consecutive letters in one square; these squares lie in three unclued lights, where making one choice of letter gives the countries LILLIPUT, BROBDINGNAG, LAPUTA and the other gives the cap
3842 10/09/2005 Long Division Duck In each row containing lights, one has a letter omitted, spelling LOT'S WIFE; down clues are MP, spelling 'THERE IS A SEASON' - SEEGER; central column (formed from jumbled lights entered diagonally) contains SODIUM CHLORIDE.
3843 17/09/2005 Safe-cracking Kea Twelve clues are normal; initial letters of these are found in order in a circle in the grid, representing the dial of a safe. Clues are presented in five groups (and are in alphabetical order in each); all lights are LL, spelling LEFT SIX, RIGHT FOUR, LE
3844 24/09/2005 No Penalty Charybdis All down lights are jumbled. Half the answers to across clues gain an additional letter initially or terminally to form another word; if the others do likewise, the extra letters (placed outside the grid) spell THINKING. Unclued across lights are EDWARD D
3845 01/10/2005 Prestissimo Bandmaster All clues except three contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell A SHAM LATIN CORRUPTION OF HOC EST CORPUS POSSIBLY, suggesting HOCUS-POCUS; ABRACADABRA is unclued. The magic act has three components: cutting the lady in half (HALF-CUT and CU
3846 08/10/2005 Whodunnit Schadenfreude In each row or column lights lose a total of two letters on entry, to be transferred to the perimeter, spelling BEETLE, BULL, COCK, THRUSH, HEN, KITE, WREN, OWL, DOVE, ROOK, LINNET, FISH, LARK; thirteen clues contain superfluous words, defining these. In
3847 15/10/2005 Pseudo-clue BeRo After the grid had been completed, all letters A to G and Q to Z are to be removed from the central 9 x 9 square; this must then be filled in "sudoku" style, with each letter from H to P appearing once in each row, column and 3 x 3 square. The central col
3848 22/10/2005 Full Card Mr Magoo Numbered clues have anagrammed definitions, or must have lights either anagrammed or entered at another numbered location. Remaining clues have lights which must be entered misprinted at locations to be deduced, with correct letters spelling 'TRIPPING THE
3849 29/10/2005 Bengo Drums Arcturus Each odd-numbered light is a word formed by inserting somewhere in the answer to the clue an extra letter, spelling 'THERE IS DIVINITY ...'; the quotation continues '... in odd numbers'. (Title is GOD in jumbled NUMBERS.)
3850 05/11/2005 Void Athene Each clue contains a superfluous word; the central two or three letters from those in down clues spell I SING OF THESE ANSWERS JUMBLED AND THE OTHERS CHANGED TO OPPOSITE DISCARD. Accordingly, each down light is jumbled while each across light is replaced
3851 12/11/2005 Dead or Alive? Merlin Sixteen clues are MP, spelling SCHROEDINGER'S CAT. In leading diagonal central seven squares contain clashes, giving possible readings CAT FULL OF ZEST and CAT LAID TO REST; the latter is required to make opposite diagonal read I OPENED THE BOX.
3852 19/11/2005 20 10 Grid is blank, to be thought of as a torus, and has 20 columns and 10 rows; all lights are 8-letter, with the second clue for each row belonging to another row. In the completed grid the actual title and setter appear along an endless spiral, to be drawn
3853 26/11/2005 Sevens and Threes Elap Numerical puzzle; clues give certain lights as linear combinations of others with all digits in coefficients being 3 or 7, with not all lights being involved in the clues. Using A = 1, B = 2, ..., Z = 26 the completed grid reads SUM ALL THE GRID ENTRIES
3854 03/12/2005 Not Again! Woracle Each answer contains one or more repeated letters, to be removed on entry.
3855 10/12/2005 Musclied Miss Lued is Clumed Ozzie Each definition has been altered by interchanging two letters, or misprinting or misplacing a single letter (as the title exemplifies with the word MISCLUED); each answer must similarly be adjusted to form the light, to which the subsidiary indication lea
3856 17/12/2005 Two Little Words Chef Central row contains CHIP AND PIN, describing unclued lights SLICE, PARE, CRISP, MONEY, KICK and PITCH, FASTEN, STAGE, COTTER, DOWEL. Pseudonym is puzzle number converted using A = 1, B = 2 etc.
3857 24/12/2005 Crackers Viking Down clues are MP, spelling PAPER HAT, MOTTO, BANG, RIDDLE, JOKE. Alternate rows have no bars; double clues are given in alphabetical order to the two words at the ends, with the central 'prize' (to be deduced) to be attached to one, shown by the insertio
3858 31/12/2005 Roots Franc Grid is made up of equilateral triangles; lights begin in specified locations and adjacent letters occupy cells with a common boundary. Twenty-six lights are words of Native American origin, eighteen appearing in etymologies of headwords in Chambers; clue
3859 07/01/2006 Ten Xanthippe Locations of all but ten lights are to be determined. The ten numbered lights, clued without definition, form words or phrases when preceded by their clue numbers (1 MAN BAND, 2 FISTED, 3 LINE WHIP, 4 POSTER, 5 O'CLOCK SHADOW, 6 SHOOTER, 7 DEADLY SINS, 8 SOME REEL, 9 TO FIVE, 10 COMMANDMENTS); definitions of these appear as superfluous words in other clues.
3860 14/01/2006 Black Holes Phi Ten clues have answers which are entered starting in unclued locations (either forwards or backwards), creating words; they then continue diagonally until they meet a 'black hole' at a vertex (to be marked) which swallows the remaining letters. The letters thus removed spell 'SINGULARITY IS ALMOST INVARIABLY A CLUE'.
3861 21/01/2006 School Wedding Mash Most clues contain misprints, with correct letters spelling FEATHERS, ROSE, SHAMROCK, THISTLE, INTERNATIONAL. Lights in top and bottom rows are unclued; crossing lights for the most part have clues in which definition and subsidiary indication lead to words differing in one letter, allowing either LANSDOWNE RD or MURRAYFIELD in the top row and TWICKENHAM or MILLENNIUM in the bottom; central row contains GREEN V WHITE, determining that the former is correct in each case. 14 squares contain clashes; entering both letters in each case (with that from the across light always first) gives the abbreviations for the positions in a team for RUGBY UNION (cf. title), correctly placed - the fifteenth (H for hooker) is to be highlighted.
3862 28/01/2006 One or the Other Obtrox Clues are given in alphabetical order of answers; columns and rows are labelled A-M and N-Z. In some clues the subsidiary indication leads to the answer with two extra letters, not necessarily consecutive, giving the co-ordinates of the initial square of the light; each of the others contains a superfluous word, whose initial letters spell INDETERMINABLE. Three rows contain HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, to be highlighted.
3863 04/02/2006 Grid References Poat Four asterisked clues contain superfluous words WATER, PAPER, GRASS, GLUE, all capable of being preceded by RICE. Each other light clashes with another; in each case the letter from the across light is to be entered, spelling 'NOT THAT YOU WON OR LOST', while those from the down lights form 'HOW YOU PLAYED THE GAME' - the quotation's author is RICE, and 'ONE GREAT SCORER' is to be written beneath the grid.
3864 11/02/2006 Witness Protection Gos 20 clues contain superfluous synonyms of WITNESS; their answers are relocated and given new identities, i.e., they are entered elsewhere as anagrams.
3865 18/02/2006 Fallout Lavatch In all clues, subsidiary indications ignore one letter of the answer. In 12 cases the light is entered in full and the letter is to be highlighted, spelling BHAGAVAD GITA along the SW-NE diagonal; in all other cases the letter is not entered in the light, but instead appears in an unchecked position in the perimeter, which contains 'I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS' - J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER; the unclued light is NAGASAKI.
3866 25/02/2006 Numbers Game Polymath Numerical puzzle; clues concern Mersenne and twin primes, triangular numbers, Pythagorean triples and a certain Fibonacci-like sequence.
3867 04/03/2006 Mendelian Arcturus Grid is blank; clues are MP, spelling 'BORROWERS OF BOOKS ... SPOILERS OF THE SYMMETRY'. All instances of the letter 'B' have been removed from the grid before cluing (for example changing BLACKBELT into two lights LACK and ELT); they must be replaced and the symmetric bar pattern inserted. One row contains LAMB'S LIBRARY (author of quotation), to be highlighted; title is really MEND ELIAN.
3868 11/03/2006 Discretion Hubris Each clue contains a superfluous word; their first letters folllowed by their fourth letters spell ACROSS ENTRIES CAN BE LEFT TO RIGHT OR RIGHT TO LEFT AND SHOULD LITERALLY CONFORM TO THEIR DIRECTIONS. Accordingly each across light has at least one letter L or R changed to the other.
3869 18/03/2006 Navigator Sabre Lights are entered normally, but many edges or bars between adjacent squares have been partially removed, making the grid into a maze; 'A MAZE WHEREIN AFFECTION FINDS NO END' may be traced from bottom left to top right. Six isolated squares are to contain RALEGH (author of the quotation), thus completing AMOUR, ALOHA, GOODWILL, STORGE, LIKING and WARMTH which may also be traced within the maze.
3870 25/03/2006 Heman 150 Llig Some clues are MP, spelling ROBERT (across) and HEINRICH (down); SCHUMANN and HEINE (both died 1856) are unclued; DICHTERLIEBE and LIEDERKREIS are to be highlighted in diagonals.
3871 01/04/2006 Subliminal Symbolism Dolos Crossword is a lipogram, lacking most common symbol throughout; cluing is normal (with initials forming UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION and FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION), but lights omit all such symbols (always forming words) and/or gain blanks, which form 'e'.
3872 08/04/2006 Missing Character Aragon Clues are LL, spelling BOARDGAME, DEPART, LIFE, STAB across and COOK, FARE, SUFFICE, SWINDLE down - these define GO and DO four times each. In the grid SAMUEL BECKETT CENTENARY (read mostly backwards and up) must be highlighted to form the final 't' of GODOT.
3873 15/04/2006 The Knight’s Tail Schadenfreude Each light is entered with a single misprint; when preceded by the top, middle and bottom rows these spell 'IT IS A PITY THAT CHAWCER, WHO HAD GENEYUS, WAS SO UNEDICATED. HE'S THE WUSS SPELLER I KNOW OF'. The author ARTEMUS WARD may be traced along knight's moves in the grid (resolving one ambiguity); the final letter of his name is to be highlighted.
3874 22/04/2006 Big Boy Ascot Ten clues are MP, spelling a mixture of ROY ORBISON (born 23/04/1936), to appear in the central row as an isolated unclued light; other unclued lights are 'OH PRETTY WOMAN', 'IT'S OVER', 'DREAM BABY', 'RUNNING SCARED' and 'ONLY THE LONELY'. 22 squares containing O are to be highlighted to form 'the big O'.
3875 29/04/2006 Round Table? Essira Grid is circular, with all lights radial, occurring in pairs with one of each pair entered jumbled. The rings are numbered 1-6: ring 1 spells DMITRI MENDELEYEV and ring 3 PERIODIC ELEMENTS, while rings 4 and 6 contain chemical symbols of elements in periods 4 and 6 of the periodic table, with each two-letter symbol having its second letter entered in lower case.
3876 06/05/2006 Grandfather Aedites Subsidiary indications in 22 clues involve extra letters, spelling BASSOON: SERGEI PROKOFIEV; the latter is to be written underneath the grid, while squares in the shape of the former, spelling LARGE WOODWIND INSTRUMENT, are to be highlighted. (The composer's 'Peter and the Wolf', in which the grandfather is represented by a bassoon, was first performed in May 1936.)
3877 13/05/2006 Stroke Horizontally Henry Clues are misprinted, with correct letters spelling THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT and ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. Three answers GLAMOUR, THEATRE and RAILWAY are replaced by the corresponding cats GRIZABELLA, GUS and SKIMBLESHANKS on entry; unclued lights are NAMING, CATS, MEMORY, AD-DRESSING, CAST and ACTS; pairs of cells containing MACAVITY are to be highlighted.
3878 20/05/2006 Superfluous Mr Magoo Each clue contains a superfluous letter or space, spelling LEE SUPERFLUX CHOC SEE TRESS NECESSAIRES; the last letters of these spell EXCESS, and their removal (together with that of one space) produces 'LE SUPERFLU, CHOSE TR+S N+CESSAIRE'. Eight letters, spelling VOLTAIRE, are to be removed from the grid and written below it; their removal turns eight across lights into the names of eight French cities with all crossing down lights still being words.
3879 27/05/2006 Digital Diversion Elap Numerical puzzle; in the clues, eighteen letters stand for 2- or 3-digit numbers such that each or its reverse is a perfect square. Several lights are unclued; each row/column or its reverse is a square, and the same is true of the SW-NE diagonal, about which the completed grid has symmetry as far as the digits (not the lights) are concerned. The sum of the lights is a number such that both it and its reverse are perfect square; its reverse (42263001) is to be written beneath the grid.
3880 03/06/2006 Master ? Gioconda Most clues are MP, spelling 'AND WHAT SHOULD MASTER ... PLAY BUT'; missing word GAUGER is to be written beneath the grid. Quotation continues '"OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY"?'; half the remaining lights have a synonym of HILL reversed on entry, while the other half lose FAR.
3881 10/06/2006 Sixes and Sevens Mordred All lights are 6- or 7-letter and are entered jumbled. Asterisked squares contain HERACLITUS, who wrote 'EVERYTHING FLOWS AND NOTHING STAYS' and 'THE ROAD UP AND THE ROAD DOWN ARE ONE AND THE SAME'; each column is palindromic.
3882 17/06/2006 Pater & Son Ploy Subsidiary indications involve either extra or missing letters, spelling ERASE ALL GRID ENTRIES THAT CONTAIN A NON-TITLE LETTER; doing this reveals the ROTAS OPERA TENET AREPO SATOR wordsquare in the central odd-numbered rows and columns. Initial letters of clues spell AND ANOTHER ANCESTOR OF THE CROSSWORD IS THE ACROSTIC.
3883 24/06/2006 Olde Treasure Hunt Merlin First and last across lights are SHERLOCK and MUSGRAVE (unclued), identifying the basis of the puzzle as the Conan Doyle short story 'The Musgrave Ritual'. Across clues contain superfluous letters, spelling SUN OVER OAK, SHADOW UNDER ELM; those down contain superfluous letters or words, and taking lengths of the latter gives N 10 AND BY 10; E 5 AND BY 5; S 2 AND 2; W 1 AND 1. The lights SOAKED and HELM appear at the feet of the first and third columns; with the S as the sun over the OAK, the tip of the shadow of the ELM is the cell at the bottom of the sixth column. Starting here and following the path (north 10, north crossing X, east 5, east crossing V, south 2, south 2, west 1, west 1) spells TGNDAIWF, which both encodes and is encoded by SHERLOCK under a cipher in which pairs of letters are encoded as each other; a little beneath the end of the path appears the encrypted form of ANCIENT CROWN OF ENGLAND in the shape of a crown, to be highlighted in the grid and written en clair beneath it. KEY: Sherlock
3884 01/07/2006 Yes Mr E Each across light loses a letter on entry, spelling 'AULD ACQUAINTANCE'; in down clues each definition applies to a light elsewhere, and the light MIND must be prefaced by NEVER.
3885 08/07/2006 4 [Heroes] Lato Eight definition-only clues have answers REGARDANT, TALEA, RAMSGATE, IN GOAL, WROTHAM, PARTYING, BASE, BREADLINE; their locations must be determined. In remaining clues, subsidiary indications involve superfluous letters, spelling OMIT L[etter] AND MIX UP D[efinition-only] C[lue] A[nswer]; OMITTED L[etter]S SPELL K[eyword], MIXES ARE K[eyword] FOUR. This produces NATIONAL as the keyword with RAG TRADE, TEAL, SEAGRAM, ANGLO, MR. THAW, GAY TRIP, E.S.B., BINDAREE as 'NATIONAL HEROES', i.e. Grand National winners (and treating HEROES similarly gives HORSE). Other unclued lights are ERITREAN and RUSSIAN (both 'nationals'); treating the former similarly gives AINTREE while the latter refers to another winner RUSSIAN HERO. Finally the light CROWS OVER leads to the reversal of the noun of assembly MURDER, i.e., RED RUM, to be written beneath the grid; an acceptable alternative is CORBIERE, obtained as CROW'S OVER (with 'S = HAS).
3886 15/07/2006 5 Down [Hybridisation] Panda The definition of each clue has been switched with that of its symmetric counterpart in the grid. Of the nine unclued lights, eight have definitions included as superfluous words or phrases in other clues. Each is an example of HYBRIDISATION: a hybrid is defined in Chambers as 'a word formed from elements of different languages', interpreted as I, F, Fe, Er, Re, N, Tl, La, U, Ag, Ge, Es, S, determining the ninth as FEERINS rather than FEARING or FEERING.
3887 22/07/2006 Count Down to Re-entry Shackleton First ten down clues are presented out of order, with locations to be determined; seven asterisks in squares indicate positions of clashes. Clues are MP, spelling CLASHES ARE WON BY DOWNS (across) and ORDER PER CLUES AND ENCODE (down). 'Losing' letters from across clues in clashes spell codeword; central four squares of rows 1, 4, 10 and 13 are to be Playfair-coded to form the centres of FRANZ LEHAR, BELA BARTOK, FRANZ LISZT and PETER LORRE. Central row contains BELA LUGOSI (unclued), with third letter replaced by U due to a clash; reordering letters in order of first ten down clues gives SIULUOAGBE, which on being encoded gives back BELA LUGOSI (died 16/08/1956). KEY: Goulash
3888 29/07/2006 REDHERRING Tea Leaves Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell SECOND AND TENTH LETTERS OF CLUES - EYE, FACE, HAND, NECK; last four words can all be preceded by RED and are red herrings, while rest of message produces SCAN ALL DIAGONALS - CENTRE OF GRID - AND KNIGHT'S MOVES; BLOATER, KIPPER, ROLLMOP - FIVE BY FOUR - SUPERIOR MODEL. Again red herrings must be ignored; central 5 x 4 area of grid contains TINTINNABULATE (= RING) surrounding EDHERR, thus enabling two clashes to be resolved.
3889 05/08/2006 Neologification Waterloo Only nine lights are words; the remainder 'have been arrived at by false scholaritude, whimse, hyperfeminism, poeticisation, up-to-dating, incorrect retroformation, etceterums' e.g. ALBA as the plural of ALBUM, HERPANIC as the feminine of HISPANIC, DERFED as the opposite of UNDERFED.
3890 12/08/2006 Aah, Belt! Elfman Each of 26 clues contains a different superfluous letter; initial letters of these clues, in alphabetical order of superfluous letters, spell ES O U EN DE I EN SE ACH A EM BE E AR ES, the phonetic representation letter by letter of SOUND IN CHAMBERS. The main diagonals contain the letters of the alphabet in the alphabetical order of their phonetic representations (with the second pass through the central square ignored; the letter P is thus omitted, reflected in the title which is an anagram of ALPHABET less P).
3891 19/08/2006 Deal Dysart Subsidiary indications in across clues involve superfluous letters, spelling 'THOU ART A SOUL IN BLISS' (spoken by King Lear to Cordelia); top row contains ED-CORDELIA-EN. Rest of speech is 'YOU DO ME WRONG TO TAKE ME OUT O' THE GRAVE ... BUT I AM BOUND UPON A WHEEL OF FIRE, THAT MINE OWN TEARS DO SCALD LIKE MOLTEN LEAD': bottom row originally contained CATA-LEAR-COMB, from which LEAR is to be removed and placed in four previously empty squares (creating new words), above INFLAMMATION arranged in a circle; these two words are to be highlighted, and MOLTEN LEAD written beneath the grid to explain the title.
3892 26/08/2006 Square Dancers' … Word Processor Numerical puzzle; full title is SQUARE DANCERS' FOUR + STEP CODE - BY (NUMBERS / WORD) - PROCESSOR. Each of these words and the others used in clues converts to a number by adding the numerical equivalents of its letters (using A = 1, B = 2, ..., Z = 26); the arithmetical operations +, -, ., / must be replaced by /, ., +, - respectively here. Each light is a perfect square or cube; the five numbers 81, 64, 1, 729, 4096 obtained from the full title are used in eight other clues (with usual operations), where they have been replaced by v, w, x, y, z in some order. Each number base from 2 to 10 is used for one row and one column of the grid.
3893 02/09/2006 41 to 5 Schadenfreude Portions of across lights THREEPIT, TWO-PAIR, PRONE, AUTO-POINT and PENNYWEIGHT are entered numerically, so that first and last columns contain SUBTRACT 32 AND DIVIDE BY 1.8; in the centre of the grid FAHRENHEIT is to be replaced by CENTIGRADE in the shape of a C, forming new words.
3894 09/09/2006 In This Year Loda Across lights are jumbled; clues contain superfluous letters, spelling TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY-SIX across and JAMES LAVER - TASTE AND FASHION down. The latter is the source of the quotation 'THE SAME COSTUME WILL BE INDECENT 10 YEARS BEFORE ITS TIME, SHAMELESS 5 YEARS BEFORE ITS TIME, OUTR+ (DARING) 1 YEAR BEFORE ITS TIME, SMART, DOWDY 1 YEAR AFTER ITS TIME, HIDEOUS 10 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, RIDICULOUS 20 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, AMUSING 30 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, QUAINT 50 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, CHARMING 70 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, ROMANTIC 100 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME, BEAUTIFUL 150 YEARS AFTER ITS TIME'. The twelve adjectives appear in order in the rows of the grid (reading up from the bottom); RIDICULOUS is to be highlighted as the appropriate term in 2026.
3895 16/09/2006 Where & Tare Dipper Subsidiary indications in clues involve superfluous letters, spelling KNOT-GRASS, GROUND ELDER, RAGWORT, GROUNDSEL, NETTLE; centre of main diagonal contains NIPPLEWORT, to be highlighted.
3896 23/09/2006 Chars Pieman Some across clues are MP, spelling BROWNIE; KOBOLD and DOBBIE are clued without definition. One light in each column is misprinted on entry; the corrections spell LUBBER-FIEND and the original letters BOWL OF CREAM. The ninth letter is thus misprinted as itself; every ninth letter in the grid is to be highlighted, spelling DOMESTIC TASKS.
3897 30/09/2006 Two for the Price of One Viking Nine clues contain a mixture of two words together with an extra letter, and a definition of one of the words; the other is the light. Each pair (e.g. SAFE and SOUND) is an example of HENDIADYS, formed from the extra letters and to be written beneath the grid.
3898 07/10/2006 Seconds Out Nibor Clues contain superfluous words, whose second letters spell START CENTRE TOP; GO DIAGONALLY FORMING A CLOCK. Doing so and ignoring every second letter spells 'SPACE ODYSSEY', to be highlighted. The remaining part of the title is to be represented by drawing the hands of the clock to show the time 20:01.
3899 14/10/2006 A Game of 5 [Kiss-in-the-Ring] Glow-worm Eight asterisked clues lack names of four boys and four girls; in each the definition refers to another of the eight. The names appear alternately in the grid in a ring (and HEAD-TO-HEAD, which is unclued) as NAVE-TESSA - RAGDE-ADA - DET-ENID - NALA-TINA; PETER and KATIE cross in the centre to form the KISS-IN-THE-RING when all names are highlighted. Perimeter contains 'THEN COME KISS ME, SWEET AND TWENTY, YOUTH'S A STUFF WILL NOT ENDURE'.
3900 21/10/2006 Dropouts Aedites The main 12 x 12 grid is to be regarded as made up of sixteen 3 x 3 blocks, in each of which a certain letter is removed each time it occurs; the removed letters, all of which are different, are placed in a separate 4 x 4 grid, to which four bars are to be added so that all entries are words (RALE, CWM, NTH, DZOS in the rows and RIND, ACT, WHO, EMUS in the columns)
3901 28/10/2006 The Plays of the Bard XII Salamanca Each clue contains an extra word; taking in each case the letter of the word corresponding to the position of the word in the clue gives READ THE FOURTH LETTER OF EACH CLUE IN ORDER; doing so gives STRAIGHTLY OUTLINE THE PIE OF TAMORA'S SONS. In the grid CHIRON/DEMETRIUS appear in the shape of a pie, which is to be drawn using four lines.
3902 04/11/2006 Gong Kea Clues are given 'Along' and 'Athwart'; the former lights are to be entered in a continuous spiral ending at the centre of the grid, with the latter crossing them. The orientation of the grid is determined by certain references in clues to parts of words 'dropping' or read clockwise; the final two squares of the spiral contain VC (unclued), completing CARACOL, CHALAZA, COCHLEA and VIBRIO read towards the corners of the spiral.
3903 11/11/2006 Do as the Lady Says Franc Top row (unclued) is 'OUT DAMNED SPOT'; 18 lights lose jumbles of SPOT on entry, while remaining clues must have definitions of SPOT removed.
3904 18/11/2006 Approximates Adam Equal numbers of answers are too short, too long or the right length for their entries; those which are too short have all letters different, and are entered as anagrams with some letters repeated, while those which are too long have duplications of letters removed on entry. In some cases subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling PROCRUSTES.
3905 25/11/2006 Solve Two, Get One Free Googly Numerical puzzle; there are three grids, with the first two clued normally. Taking pairs of digits, reducing modulo 26 and converting to letters the completed grids spell AN ARITHMETIC SERIES and ALL PRIME; these describe six of the lights in the third grid, the other lights all being squares.
3906 02/12/2006 Another Chance to See … Duck There are three types of clues: the first are normal with misprinted lights; the second include superfluous words, whose initial and final letters give the second of two misprints occurring in the lights; the third have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling WYNNE'S CROSSWORD, the grid of which is to be highlighted.
3907 09/12/2006 The Consequence of Being Mortal Phi Thematic lights are types of HANGOVER, clued without definition: BROKEN COMPASS, SEWING MACHINE, COMET, ATOMIC, CEMENT MIXER, GREMLIN BOOGIE - listed by WODEHOUSE in 'The MATING SEASON' (spelled out by superfluous letters included in subsidiary indications in clues to remaining down lights). The first letter of each remaining across light 'hangs over' from the end of its predecessor.
3908 16/12/2006 A Stage in William’s Life Mango Each clue contains a superfluous letter, spelling FIRST AND LAST LETTERS OF MODIFIED CLUES, leading to 'PRAY YOU MASTER LIEUTENANT SEE ME SAFE UP; AND MY COMING DOWN LET ME SHIFT FOR MYSELF', last words of SIR THOMAS MORE spoken to THE LIEUTENANT (clued without definition in top and bottom rows). Down lights meeting the latter are entered upwards, while those meeting the former have their letters shifted forward a constant amount, e.g. PRIMERO with each letter shifted by 3 becomes SULPHUR. Missing word 'I' from quotation is to be entered in central isolated square; central row then contains UTOPIA I COINED, to be highlighted.
3909 23/12/2006 Allusions MynoT Twelve clues have subsidiary indications leading to LEAPING, DANCING, PIPING, DRUMMING, MILKING, SWIMMING, LAYING, GOLD, CALLING, FRENCH, TURTLE, PEAR TREE (reading down before across); the corresponding lights contain LORD, LADY, PIPER, DRUMMER, MAID, SWAN, GOOSE, RING, BIRD, HEN, DOVE, PARTRIDGE, to be highlighted (in three cases running into the light below or to the right, whose clue is then simply a one-word definition).
3910 30/12/2006 Extra Special Fare The Tall’n Each row and column is to be treated as cyclic, and contains two lights (or in the case of the central column, three). Clues are double (or triple) and the second light in each row and column is entered jumbled. Items appearing in a 'Bill of Fare' are clued without definition. The six unchecked letters may be arranged to spell SU DOKU; the central 9 x 9 square forms a su doku grid with central row ROAST DUCK, and is to be indicated by drawing the eight horizontal and vertical lines dividing it into 3 x 3 blocks.
3911 06/01/2007 Direct Action Hubris Each clue contains a superfluous word, whose first and then fourth letters spell GRID ENTRIES MUST CONFORM LITERALLY TO THEIR DIRECTIONS, I.E., NORTH TO SOUTH OR WEST TO EAST OR VICE VERSA. Thus the across answer WREN might be entered as EREN (west to east) or NWRW (east to west); similarly the down answer SNAP might be entered as SSAP (north to south) or PANN (south to north).
3912 13/01/2007 Writer Ark Final letter of each answer is E, to be removed on entry. Clues whose final letter is E are MP, spelling 'DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE'; each of the remaining clues contains a single word ending in E, whose initial letters spell BLACK OUT WRITER'S FULL NAME. The writer concerned is ISABEL ALLENDE, appearing in the centre of the grid in the shape of a letter E.
3913 20/01/2007 Solutions to be Clued Waterloo Eight clues are single words, with the corresponding lights being clues, e.g. 'Rams' gives SHEEP UP IN ARMS, 'Preserve' gives KEEP PENNY ICE.
3914 27/01/2007 Zones Ten-Four The grid is divided into three zones, indicated by shading: the first consists of the first three rows and columns; the second is an inverted L-shape formed from the remainder of the next five rows and columns; the third is the bottom left 7 x 7 square. The letters J and Q do not appear in clue answers; the remaining 24 letters are paired, and then the pairs themselves are paired, as AB, CD; EF, HG; IK, LM; ON, RP; TS, UV; WX, YZ. Lights beginning in the first zone are entered normally; those beginning in the second are entered with the first letter of each pair replacing the second; those beginning in the third are entered with the vowel (or Y) of each pair of pairs replacing the other three letters.
3915 03/02/2007 Twinset Xanthippe Eleven lights contain double letters; ten of their clues have been misplaced. The perimeter contains nine lights, clued by single-word definitions, given in alphabetical order. Each of the 26 letters occurs doubled exactly once in the grid, in some cases straddling two perimeter lights; these doubled letters are to be highlighted.
3916 10/02/2007 Hunt Samuel Nine clues contain superfluous groups of letters, which may be rearranged to form MENSA, PERSEUS, URSA MINOR, HYDRA, NORMA, ARIES, CETUS, PICTOR, GRUS. Remaining clues have misprints in both definition and subsidiary indication; in each case one of the correct letters is the other misprint, and these spell REFRACTOR, REFLECTOR, THE HUBBLE. Replacing TELESCOPE in the centre of the main diagonal by each of these in turn reveals successively along diagonals LITTLE GREEN MEN, to be written beneath the grid; the acronym SETI is to highlighted in green.
3917 17/02/2007 PS Homer Fifteen clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN, whose poem 'Night Mail' provides the theme: 'This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door.' Six lights are clued without definition: CHEQUE; ALOPST ('postal' in alphabetical order); HTICEHR, HOPOTRE (jumbles of 'the rich' and 'the poor'); and THEMARY above SHOPANN in the bottom left corner. Main diagonals contain NIGHT MAIL crossing BORDER, to be highlighted.
3918 24/02/2007 Factory Viking Numerical puzzle, with lights clued by the numbers of their divisors (a tribute to Rhombus, born 1907).
3919 03/03/2007 The Crooked Man Jago Certain squares are to contain chemical symbols, read in full in across lights but with only the capital letter read in down lights; some ambiguities are avoided by the requirement that no TRANSURANIAN elements are involved. Unclued lights are ELEMENTARY, HOLMES, WATSON and CONAN DOYLE.
3920 10/03/2007 Travelling Light Ploy Top row of grid (unclued) has no vertical lines dividing it into squares; initially it contains THIS TRAIN STO..., to be completed by superfluous words or corrections to misprints in clues, spelling ...PS AT STEVENAGE, PETERBOROUGH, DONCASTER, YORK, DARLINGTON, NEWCASTLE AND EDINBURGH. Puzzle marks Listener Setters' Dinner in York, to which the setter must travel from London; when the message has scrolled through to R YORK DARLING (changing intersecting down lights to other words), the journey from near centre of bottom row, heading mostly N and sometimes NW, spells I HAVE TO GET TO and ends in YORK (these last to be highlighted).
3921 17/03/2007 Mistaken Identity Duck Across clues are LL, spelling PROVINCES OF IRELAND; five unclued down lights CENSURER, GENTLE, LUST, ROMANIST, HUNT form an anagram of CONNAUGHT, LEINSTER, MUNSTER, ULSTER.
3922 24/03/2007 An Amusing State? Dimitry Clues are given in usual order, separated into across and down; grid is blank, with bars to be added and unused squares to be blacked in. Resulting completed grid has ten protruding squares around the edge, spelling SHARAWAGGI (to be highlighted), meaning 'the use of irregularity, discordance or incongruity for deliberative, artful, contrastive effect'; title refers to alternative reading A WAGGISH AR, obtained by starting elsewhere.
3923 31/03/2007 Family Planning Brimstone 10 clues each define a 7-letter and two 3-letter words, with the former an anagram of the latter two together with an extra letter; the 3-letter lights are to be entered in locations to be discovered, while the extra letters may be arranged to spell THE BORGIAS. Subsidiary indications in remaining clues involve superfluous letters, two for across clues and one for down; taking one of each pair across gives 'THE THIRD MAN' - ORSON WELLES, while the others followed by those from down clues spell IN GRID CHANGE OUTPUT FROM ITALY TO THAT FROM SWITZERLAND; the completely checked light RENAISSANCE is to be replaced by CUCKOO CLOCK, forming new words.
3924 07/04/2007 On Air Charybdis Theme is Browning's poem 'THAT'S THE WISE THRUSH; HE SINGS EACH SONG TWICE OVER, LEST YOU SHOULD THINK HE NEVER COULD RECAPTURE THE FIRST FINE CARELESS RAPTURE!': one row and one column (largely unclued, and with isolated squares) each contain WE STIR THE HUSH (anagram of 'THE WISE THRUSH'); 23 clashes together with one other letter spell either 'HE SINGS EACH SONG TWICE OVER' or 'FIRST FINE CARELESS RAPTURE', with the former to be entered as it correctly completes the unclued lights BLACKBIRD and DOVE; a curve is to be drawn in the grid through the letters of PURE ART (i.e., 'CARELESS RAPTURE') in the form of an arc of a circle, with the enclosed letters being SUN RISES.
3925 14/04/2007 The Reform Club Auctor Four border lights have 'ALL for ONE and ONE for ALL' (LOSE ALL'S SEAT, LYDIAN STALL; HONEUCINATE, CRYSTONEISED). Sixteen lights lose a letter on entry; these reappear as extra letters in other lights, forming ATHOS, PORTHOS, ARAMIS meeting in the common last letter.
3926 21/04/2007 Mutatis Mutandis Nibor Each answer must lose one letter, gain another and be rearranged to form the light, another word; the clue contains a superfluous definition of the light. The letters removed and those inserted form two sequences of words, defined in the preamble. The central column (unclued) is INVARIABILITY.
3927 28/04/2007 Five-star Actioner Gos Eleven clashes in the grid must be resolved to reveal 'GONE WITH THE WIND', to be highlighted; GABLE and LEIGH are unclued, and second symbols (including one apostrophe) in clues form 'AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I'LL NEVER BE HUNGRY AGAIN'. Title of puzzle contains TARA.
3928 05/05/2007 A Paradox, a Paradox Sabre There are two grids; in the first some lights are entered jumbled, while in the second some are misprinted. The proportion of across answers entered normally is less in the first than in the second; the same is true of down lights; however, the proportion of all answers entered normally is greater in the first than in the second. Three unclued 6-letter lights (ZAMBUK, SLIGHT, PONDER) are to be regarded is giving the faces of three dice, with letters replaced by numerical equivalents; on average the first die beats the second, the second beats the third and the third beats the first. RUSSELL and EPIMENIDES are unclued.
3929 12/05/2007 Venery Psyche Lights are clued in alphabetical order; each clue involves an extra letter, either appearing in it or produced by the subsidiary indication, spelling 'MAN IS THE [HUNTER]; WOMAN IS HIS [GAME]: THE SLEEK AND SHINING [CREATURES] OF [THE CHASE]', where the words in parentheses are four lights clued without definition.
3930 19/05/2007 Double Entry Adam Keyword is NODDY, which has two main entries in Chambers: the first has six definitions, represented by the symmetrically placed lights CARD GAME, FILM CLIP, OCEANIC BIRD, REAR DOOR CAB, KNAVE, COKES (to be highlighted); the second is an 'inverted pendulum', to be represented by writing PENDULUM upside-down beneath the grid, the final inverted M (looking like W) already having been provided.
3931 26/05/2007 Certificate 18 Ruslan Numerical puzzle, with the eighteen lights the 3-digit numbers in base 3; letters in clues represent the numbers from 2 to 19. In one clue the letters have been replaced by x and y; the correct letters, together with those representing two of the lights, are to be entered in a separate grid, forming 'amen'.
3932 02/06/2007 Initials Mango Clues are given in alphabetical order of answers; taken in normal order, their initials spell YSOBEL, TROYTE, NIMROD, DORABELLA - EDWARD ELGAR (titles of movements and composer of the Enigma Variations). In the grid, ten jumbles of ENIGMA, overlapping at ends, are to be highlighted to form the composer's initials EE.
3933 09/06/2007 Lay __ Out Zero In each thematic clue, one or two letters in the answer are ignored in the subsidiary indication and replaced by small dots on entry; in clue order these spell '[ITALY] IS A GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION'. In seven other squares contributions from across and down lights form MILAN, TURIN, VENICE, GENOA, FLORENCE, ROME and NAPLES, appropriately located; these are to be replaced by large dots. A continuous loop of straight lines joining dots (including those representing VENICE, GENOA and NAPLES) must be drawn to create an approximate outline of Italy.
3934 16/06/2007 Surprise Alberich Across answers are entered jumbled; their clues have superfluous words, whose initial letters spell A TURN-UP FOR THE BOOKS. Each down answer contains an abbreviation of a book of the Bible, to be entered in reverse.
3935 23/06/2007 Two Down Wasp Six clues contain letter mixtures involving superfluous letters, which may be arranged to spell CLUEDO; definitions in these clues lead to the titles of the characters MRS. PEACOCK, PROFESSOR PLUM, COLONEL MUSTARD, MISS SCARLETT, REVEREND GREEN and MRS. WHITE, while the lights, to be entered in appropriate colours, are their surnames, given by the letter mixtures. The central light, giving the murderer, is thus entered in white; these apparently empty squares are to be filled with the surname of the murder victim DR. BLACK (in black), and the name of the murderer together with the location and means (BALLROOM and LEAD PIPE, found as symmetrically-placed lights) are to be written beneath the grid.
3936 30/06/2007 Convert Mr Lemon Nine clues are MP, with incorrect letters spelling GRINGOTTS; in remaining clues subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling DIAGON ALLEY - PHILOSOPHER'S - H. POTTER. This reference shows that one GALLEON (1 Ac) is worth 17 SICKLEs (17 Ac), each of which is worth 29 KNUTs (29 Dn), giving an overall conversion factor of 493: CDXCIII (in the centre) and SICKLE are to be highlighted in the completed grid.
3937 07/07/2007 Men in Her Life Raich Clues either are LL or contain superfluous words, spelling BRAY, LEWES, CROSS - PEN NAME FOR REAL NAME; TITLES OF TWO BOOKS. The first three were significant in the life of MARIAN EVANS, to be replaced in the grid by GEORGE ELIOT, creating ADAM BEDE; these two and SILAS MARNER are to be highlighted.
3938 14/07/2007 Babel Noggs Clues are of three types, with numbers of each being equal: normal, definition plus origin and subsidiary indication plus origin. Here 'origin' denotes a language listed in the etymology of the light in Chambers, and is indicated in clues in various cryptic ways; the 28 origins used are all distinct.
3939 21/07/2007 Novel Connections Buff Subsidiary indications in most clues involve extra letters, spelling LONDINIUM; LINDUM; AQUAE SULIS; VIROCONIUM. These places are correctly located in the grid by squares containing their initial letters; joining them are WATLING (ST.), ERMINE (ST.) and FOSSE WAY, to be highlighted (two other lights contain ST, ignored in the subsidiary indication).
3940 28/07/2007 Curry Kea In most clues one word in the definition must have a letter removed and the others rearranged before solving; removed letters spell KING JAMES: PROVERBS THIRTY-ONE TEN, which reads 'Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies'. Remaining lights are entered jumbled. The feet of six adjacent columns contain SPINEL, BLOOD, LIPS, BALAS, AGATE, PORT, all RUBIES and to be entered in red; the first letters of these columns contain DEARTH, to be replaced by ARETHA, causing all jumbles to become words.
3941 04/08/2007 Wanted: Dead or Alive Aldebaran Each clue must have one of O, A, B or AB removed before solving, each blood group occurring in approximately the proportion found in the UK population. FEE FI FO FUM is unclued; eight lights are anagrams of bones, to be highlighted to form the outline of a loaf of bread (reflecting 'I'LL GRIND HIS BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD').
3942 11/08/2007 Advice MynoT Clues are presented in alphabetical order of lights, whose locations must be determined. The grid comprises four identical quarters; when these are correctly arranged, 'GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, JUVENES DUM SUMUS' (to be highlighted) may be read in four of the rows.
3943 18/08/2007 Roadies Bandmaster In each row apart from the top, middle and bottom, one clash must be resolved by entering the letter from the down light, to allow FRIAR, MERCHANT, MILLER, SHIPMAN, MONK, PARSON, HOST, SUMMONER, SQUIRE, REEVE to appear; misprinting an unchecked letter in the middle row makes it contain PILGRIMAGERS. Clues to lights not involved in clashes contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell 'LIKE PILGRIMS TO TH' APPOINTED PLACE WE TEND'. Top and bottom rows contain SOUTHWARK and CANTERBURY; in these the W and T must be highlighted as forming the beginning and ending of WATLING STREET, with the other letters provided by the new letters in the intervening rows in order.
3944 25/08/2007 Dedication Oyler Numerical puzzle; taking pairs of digits, reducing modulo 26 and converting to letters the completed grid spells 'READ EULER, READ EULER, HE IS THE MASTER OF US ALL - LAPLACE', of which the first two words and the author must be written beneath the grid.
3945 01/09/2007 Workplace Mr E Half the lights lose a letter on entry, spelling THERBLIG AND EREWHON; remaining lights are to be entered likewise reversed except for one adjacent pair of letters.
3946 08/09/2007 Growing Pains Dipper In 22 clues the subsidiary indication refers to another light; the remainder have superfluous words or phrases. 12 of these define vegetables; the initial letters of the remaining 12 spell UNDER THE SHED, leading to ALLIUM PORRUM underneath LEAN-TO in the grid, to be highlighted.
3947 15/09/2007 King Rebel In this puzzle north is at the top of the grid, which is intended to represent the Kafka novel 'The Castle'. Clues are in three groups, 'Ground East', 'Ground South' and 'Central Region'; those in the last of these are preceded by the 'level' (G, 1, 2, 3 or 4) and direction (including Up and Down), and lights are entered to build up a three-dimensional representation of a castle. Ground clues other than those in the first group have subsidiary indications involving extra letters, spelling AUTHOR AND TWO OTHER OF HIS NOVELS; clues at levels above Ground contain superfluous letters, spelling ENTER THE TOPMOST LETTERS. Doing so in the central region produces FRANZ KAFKA, to be highlighted along with 'AMERICA' and 'THE TRIAL'.
3948 22/09/2007 Word for Word Aragon Preamble reads 'Initial letters of superfluous words in twenty-one clues help give the first part of an instruction to solvers. This instruction is completed by three pairs of grid entries, so that the asterisked cells read correctly.' Initial letters mentioned spell TAKE PREAMBLE LITERALLY; doing so leads to SWITCH as the first part of the instruction. Pairs of lights to be switched are LATTICE / RECORDS, GRILLE / FOYERS, and NETWORK / PORTALS (i.e., GRID / ENTRIES); asterisked cells then contain CORRECTLY.
3949 29/09/2007 Greetings Bufo Several checked squares need to contain three letters, not necessarily in the same order in crossing lights. Seven definitions contain three consecutive extra letters; these groups may be arranged to spell FIRST OF THE ACROSS THREE, which indicates which letter to enter in each 'triple' square; top and bottom row then contain BEST WISHES FROM MR. TOAD.
3950 06/10/2007 Wot, No Lines? Charybdis Grid represents a section of wall, with single and double cells alternating in each row as in a brick pattern; across lights are entered normally, while those down move successively from one brick to another either totally or partially below it. Clues are given in order of light length; subsidiary indications involve extra letters, spelling HIGHLIGHT FIFTEEN DOWN AND SIX LETTERS ON A MAJOR DIAGONAL. Unclued lights are WRITING ON THE WALL, KILROY WAS HERE, CHAD, GRAFFITI, 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN' and ANAGRAMS; the last of these is 15 Down, and is completed by LURE OK at the bottom of the NE-SW diagonal.
3951 13/10/2007 Trades Arachne In half the clues, one word (occasionally a consecutive pair of words) must be replaced by an anagram before solving; in the remainder, one of the letters L, S, Y must be replaced by one of the others. Five across lights lose an L on entry, while five down lights are entered reversed, in all cases forming new words; first and last across lights are BULLS and BEARS (unclued).
3952 20/10/2007 Abundance Seth Mould Outer rows and columns represent bridge hands, with cards represented by A, K, Q, J, T, N, E, S, S, F, F, T, T and listed in usual suit order with bars separating suits. In ten inner columns one light is entered with two letters omitted: in each case one appears in the unchecked square at the top or bottom of the column, while the others spell YARBOROUGH (defined in Chambers as 'a hand containing no card above a nine'), of which the bottom row FTT|FTT|FTT|FFTT is an extreme example. Remaining clues contain superfluous letters, spelling the encoded form of HIGHLIGHT LONGEST WORD IN EAST'S HAND where each 'card' letter stands for the letters in the alphabet between itself and the next one. First column contains KQJ|KQJ|KQJ|KQJT, an extreme example of 'a hand containing no card above a king'); last column, ignoring bars, contains words, the longest of which is FATNESS.
3953 27/10/2007 Resolution Alligator Some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ERASE ALL LETTERS FROM THE GRID. Lights UTOPIA, EREWHON and NEWS FROM NOWHERE are clued without definition; unclued lights are ALFRED JARRY, inventor of PATAPHYSICS ('the science of imaginary solutions'), to be found in the grid and written below it after erasure.
3954 03/11/2007 Multi-part Puzzle Poat Grid is circular, with radial lights occurring in eight groups of five. Within each group five clue types are used: subsidiary indications involve an extra letter S; DLM with letter mixture involving an extra letter A; definitions have a misprint T; clues have superfluous words, synonyms of BAR; and definitions have an extra letter B. Perimeter contains SOPRANO, ALTO, TENOR, BARITONE, BASS - THOMAS TALLIS; third ring from the outside contains jumbles of ADELINA PATTI, FERRIER, CARUSO, TERFEL, CHALIAPIN, clued without definition; innermost ring contains a jumble of 'SPEM IN AL(I)UM', with the second letter I to be entered in the middle of the grid.
3955 10/11/2007 Band on the Run Tea Leaves Grid has no bars, but starting squares of lights are given; many lights, especially those down, are jumbled. Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell DRAW LINES TO CREATE TWENTY-ONE FILM TITLES; ENTER FOUR-WORD TITLE FOR 'KEITH' AT MM and final letters TWENTY STARTING WD, LS, TIH, AC, GWTW, C, GW, S, HN, DS, RM, BAC, FF, COAHTR, BN, TKAI, DS, ANOES, GC, TFC. The completed grid is thus to be divided into regions containing cryptic versions of film titles with the given initial letters, e.g. SEWN for 'BREAKING NEWS', MARAN for 'RAIN MAN'; the remaining film, represented by KEITH, is 'SOME LIKE IT HOT', to be written beneath the grid in a box containing MM.
3956 17/11/2007 A & D The Tall'n Clues are headed 'A' and 'D'. The former have lights across: ten of these are unnumbered, with answers RUBY, IRON, PAPER, LINEN, WOOL, LACE, LEATHER, CHINA, GOLD, STEEL, and the corresponding numbers of wedding anniversaries are to be inserted in the grid; ten others are related to DIAMOND. The latter are paired, and the lights are to entered in diamonds which overlap in one or two letters. QUEEN'S WEDDING ANNIVERSARY and SIXTIETH are to be highlighted in diamond form in the grid.
3957 24/11/2007 Eleven Across Elap Numerical puzzle; clues give the values obtained by adding or subtracting various lights (or multiples or products thereof). Central lights across and down are unclued. Taking the values given in the clues and interpreting 1 to 26 as A to Z appropriately gives DISREGARDING BARS, THIS GRID REPRESENTS A CROSSWORD IN WHICH A IS ONE, B TWO ETC. - each row and column may in this way be interpreted as a single word, allowing the unclued lights to be entered. Finally the sum of all lights is 192113, to be interpreted as SUM, which is to be written beneath the grid.
3958 01/12/2007 Describer Henry Theme is EDWARD UPWARD: five down answers are entered with ED, TED, NED, EDDY or TEDDY reversed; four answers are entered with TRIP, RAKE, EYRE or RIDE moved to the edge of the grid, to reflect the title 'JOURNEY TO THE BORDER'; most other clues are MP, spelling contemporaries AUDEN, ISHERWOORD, SPENDER (and one of these lights is DAY LEWIS); other clues have numbers summing to 104 (reflecting his birth in 1903); finally his name (to be highlighted) appears in alternate squares up the central two columns of the grid, reflecting the title 'THE SPIRAL ASCENT'.
3959 08/12/2007 Inflation, or Now We Are Twelve Waterloo All numerical values in clue answers are doubled on entry, e.g. RANINE becomes RAEIGHTEEN.
3960 15/12/2007 Misprinted Choice Schadenfreude Twenty-one clues are MP, spelling 'THE LADY'S NOT FOR (B/T)URNING' (the definition in the fifteenth could be either banker or tanker). Main diagonal in grid contains clashes; one set of choices spells MAGGIE THATCHER and the other CHRISTOPHER FRY (born 18/12/1907); the latter is indicated by the other diagonal, which contains BIRTH CENTENARY.
3961 22/12/2007 Invitation Duck One square in each column contains a clash, with the across and down letters differing by one or two places in the alphabet. In each of seven rows the subsidiary indication in one across clue involves an extra letter, thus labelling the rows concerned with the natural pitches of an octave reading down from C. Clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters spell ONE LETTER GAP IS CROTCHET - DRAW STEMMED NOTES; clashes are therefore to be filled with either crotchets or minims, and then the grid represents the opening twelve notes of 'O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL, JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT', to be entered underneath the grid.
3962 29/12/2007 Disappearance Phi Grid has equal left and right halves apart from linking top row; clues are for the most part double. Some clues contain superfluous words, whose initial letters in order spell HUIA TODAY (left half) and GONE TOMORROW (right half); the unclued lights TODAY and TOMORROW in the left and right halves determine which side of the grid represents which, and thus the HUIA appearing diagonally in the left half is to be highlighted while that in the right half is to be erased. Other unclued lights are KAKAPO and KOKAKO.